Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Barhaj

Assembly constituency 342 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Deepak Kumar Mishr · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

9.2pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

16,861votes

9.2 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

57.4%

Seat median 53.9% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 16.1 pp

2002
16.1 pp
Jagan Prasad GargBharatiya Janata Partyby 12,749 votes
2007
9.3 pp
Jagan Prashad GargBharatiya Janata Partyby 8,263 votes
2012
7.6 pp
Prem Prakash SinghSamajwadi Partyby 11,776 votes
2017
7.0 pp
Suresh TiwariBharatiya Janata Partyby 11,716 votes
2022
9.2 pp
Deepak Kumar MishrBharatiya Janata Partyby 16,861 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 31 parties and independents

BJP 4 of 580% won SP 1 of 520% won · 1 second IND 0 of 270% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 3 second INC 0 of 40% won · 1 second CPI 0 of 20% won CPI(ML)L 0 of 20% won HJ 0 of 20% won

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

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP won 4 of 5 contests on record (80.0%).
wins by party: BJP 4 · SP 1 · 4 ÷ 5 = 80.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BJP → 2007 BJP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2017 at 7.0 pp; the widest 2002 at 16.1 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 9.2 pp equals the seat's median.
9.2 − 9.2 = 0.0
Turnout moved from 38.2% in 2002 to 57.4% in 2022, +19.2 pp.
57.4 − 38.2 = +19.2

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 53.9%

2002 38.2%

2007 37.5%

2012 53.9%

2017 57.2%

2022 57.4%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Barhaj, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Deepak Kumar Mishr	Bharatiya Janata Party	16,861	9.2	57.4
2017	Suresh Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party	11,716	7.0	57.2
2012	Prem Prakash Singh	Samajwadi Party	11,776	7.6	53.9
2007	Jagan Prashad Garg	Bharatiya Janata Party	8,263	9.3	37.5
2002	Jagan Prasad Garg	Bharatiya Janata Party	12,749	16.1	38.2

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 16,861 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Barhaj, 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