Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Basti Sadar

Assembly constituency 310 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Mahendra Nath Yadav · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

10.5pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

1,779votes

0.8 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

57.3%

Seat median 59.1% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 20.7 pp

2002
7.3 pp
Pooran Singh BundelaBharatiya Janata Partyby 12,742 votes
2007
12.4 pp
Pt. Ram Kumar TiwariBahujan Samaj Partyby 24,236 votes
2012
10.5 pp
Jeetendra KumarBahujan Samaj Partyby 19,003 votes
2017
20.7 pp
Dayaram ChaudharyBharatiya Janata Partyby 42,594 votes
2022
0.8 pp
Mahendra Nath YadavSamajwadi Partyby 1,779 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 32 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won BJP 2 of 540% won · 1 second SP 1 of 520% won · 2 second IND 0 of 430% won INC 0 of 40% won · 2 second LSP 0 of 20% won SHS 0 of 20% won SSD 0 of 20% won

Won of candidatures, counted from the published candidate lines; independents are counted together.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP and BSP won 2 each of 5 contests on record.
wins by party: BJP 2 · BSP 2 · SP 1
The seat changed party 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BJP → 2007 BSP → 2012 BSP → 2017 BJP → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2022 at 0.8 pp; the widest 2017 at 20.7 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 0.8 pp was 9.7 pp below the seat's median of 10.5 pp.
0.8 − 10.5 = −9.7
Turnout moved from 67.1% in 2002 to 57.3% in 2022, −9.8 pp.
57.3 − 67.1 = −9.8

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 59.1%

2002 67.1%

2007 66.8%

2012 58.3%

2017 59.1%

2022 57.3%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Basti Sadar, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Mahendra Nath Yadav	Samajwadi Party	1,779	0.8	57.3
2017	Dayaram Chaudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party	42,594	20.7	59.1
2012	Jeetendra Kumar	Bahujan Samaj Party	19,003	10.5	58.3
2007	Pt. Ram Kumar Tiwari	Bahujan Samaj Party	24,236	12.4	66.8
2002	Pooran Singh Bundela	Bharatiya Janata Party	12,742	7.3	67.1

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 42,594 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Basti Sadar, Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Party recordCounted from the published candidate lines for this seat · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Medians and countsComputed from the contests on this page when the page was built