Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Chunar

Assembly constituency 398 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Anurag Singh · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

22.0pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

47,614votes

22.0 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

59.6%

Seat median 63.8% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 29.1 pp

2002
5.9 pp
Dharam SinghBahujan Samaj Partyby 9,554 votes
2007
22.1 pp
Dr.Dharm Singh SainiBahujan Samaj Partyby 36,673 votes
2012
11.2 pp
Jagatamba SinghSamajwadi Partyby 20,708 votes
2017
29.1 pp
Anurag SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 62,228 votes
2022
22.0 pp
Anurag SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 47,614 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 31 parties and independents

BSP 2 of 540% won · 1 second BJP 2 of 540% won · 1 second SP 1 of 425% won · 2 second IND 0 of 130% won INC 0 of 40% won BVP 0 of 20% won CPI(ML)L 0 of 20% won JD(U) 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 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BSP → 2007 BSP → 2012 SP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2002 at 5.9 pp; the widest 2017 at 29.1 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 22.0 pp equals the seat's median.
22.0 − 22.0 = 0.0
Turnout moved from 68.1% in 2002 to 59.6% in 2022, −8.5 pp.
59.6 − 68.1 = −8.5
The name Anurag Singh 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, 63.8%

2002 68.1%

2007 64.2%

2012 61.3%

2017 63.8%

2022 59.6%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Chunar, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Anurag Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	47,614	22.0	59.6
2017	Anurag Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	62,228	29.1	63.8
2012	Jagatamba Singh	Samajwadi Party	20,708	11.2	61.3
2007	Dr.Dharm Singh Saini	Bahujan Samaj Party	36,673	22.1	64.2
2002	Dharam Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	9,554	5.9	68.1

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 62,228 votes

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