Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Gopalpur

Assembly constituency 344 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Nafees Ahmad · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

10.5pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

24,307votes

11.9 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

54.3%

Seat median 54.3% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 18.5 pp

2002
5.8 pp
Ramesh Kant LawaniaBharatiya Janata Partyby 7,107 votes
2007
10.5 pp
Bhagwan Singh KushwahaBahujan Samaj Partyby 13,220 votes
2012
18.5 pp
Waseem AhmadSamajwadi Partyby 30,134 votes
2017
8.0 pp
Nafees AhmadSamajwadi Partyby 14,960 votes
2022
11.9 pp
Nafees AhmadSamajwadi Partyby 24,307 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 30 parties and independents

SP 3 of 560% won BSP 1 of 520% won · 2 second BJP 1 of 520% won · 3 second IND 0 of 220% won INC 0 of 40% won BMP 0 of 20% won RLD 0 of 20% won AAP 0 of 10% won

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

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

SP won 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: SP 3 · BJP 1 · BSP 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BJP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 SP → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2002 at 5.8 pp; the widest 2012 at 18.5 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 11.9 pp was 1.4 pp above the seat's median of 10.5 pp.
11.9 − 10.5 = +1.4
Turnout moved from 56.7% in 2002 to 54.3% in 2022, −2.4 pp.
54.3 − 56.7 = −2.4
The name Nafees Ahmad appears as winner in 2 contests: 2017 and 2022.
winner names matched across years, ignoring spacing and punctuation

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 54.3%

2002 56.7%

2007 48.4%

2012 54.1%

2017 55.9%

2022 54.3%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Gopalpur, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Nafees Ahmad	Samajwadi Party	24,307	11.9	54.3
2017	Nafees Ahmad	Samajwadi Party	14,960	8.0	55.9
2012	Waseem Ahmad	Samajwadi Party	30,134	18.5	54.1
2007	Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha	Bahujan Samaj Party	13,220	10.5	48.4
2002	Ramesh Kant Lawania	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,107	5.8	56.7

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 30,134 votes

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