Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Azamgarh

Assembly constituency 347 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Durga Prasad Yadav · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

12.4pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

16,036votes

6.8 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

55.2%

Seat median 54.4% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 17.2 pp

2002
6.7 pp
Pradeep MathurIndian National Congressby 6,537 votes
2007
17.2 pp
Prdeep MathurIndian National Congressby 21,090 votes
2012
16.9 pp
Durga Prasad YadavSamajwadi Partyby 31,441 votes
2017
12.4 pp
Durga PrasadSamajwadi Partyby 26,262 votes
2022
6.8 pp
Durga Prasad YadavSamajwadi Partyby 16,036 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 29 parties and independents

SP 3 of 560% won INC 2 of 450% won IND 0 of 260% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 1 second BJP 0 of 50% won · 4 second NCP 0 of 30% won RKP 0 of 20% won RLD 0 of 20% 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 · INC 2 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 1 time in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 INC → 2007 INC → 2012 SP → 2017 SP → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2002 at 6.7 pp; the widest 2007 at 17.2 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 6.8 pp was 5.6 pp below the seat's median of 12.4 pp.
6.8 − 12.4 = −5.6
Turnout moved from 35.7% in 2002 to 55.2% in 2022, +19.5 pp.
55.2 − 35.7 = +19.5
The name Durga Prasad Yadav appears as winner in 2 contests: 2012 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, 54.4%

2002 35.7%

2007 39.9%

2012 54.4%

2017 56.5%

2022 55.2%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Durga Prasad Yadav	Samajwadi Party	16,036	6.8	55.2
2017	Durga Prasad	Samajwadi Party	26,262	12.4	56.5
2012	Durga Prasad Yadav	Samajwadi Party	31,441	16.9	54.4
2007	Prdeep Mathur	Indian National Congress	21,090	17.2	39.9
2002	Pradeep Mathur	Indian National Congress	6,537	6.7	35.7

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 31,441 votes

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