Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Meerut

Assembly constituency 48 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

Rafiq Ansari · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

11.5pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

26,065votes

13.0 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

64.1%

Seat median 64.1% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 14.8 pp

2002
11.5 pp
Sharadveer SinghSamajwadi Partyby 16,061 votes
2007
2.7 pp
Neeraj KushwahaBahujan Samaj Partyby 3,659 votes
2012
3.5 pp
Dr. Laxmikant BajpaiBharatiya Janata Partyby 6,278 votes
2017
14.8 pp
Rafiq AnsariSamajwadi Partyby 28,769 votes
2022
13.0 pp
Rafiq AnsariSamajwadi Partyby 26,065 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 26 parties and independents

SP 3 of 560% won · 2 second BSP 1 of 520% won · 1 second BJP 1 of 520% won · 2 second IND 0 of 290% won INC 0 of 40% won NCP 0 of 20% won RLD 0 of 20% won SHS 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 · BJP 1 · BSP 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 SP → 2007 BSP → 2012 BJP → 2017 SP → 2022 SP
The closest contest was 2007 at 2.7 pp; the widest 2017 at 14.8 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 13.0 pp was 1.5 pp above the seat's median of 11.5 pp.
13.0 − 11.5 = +1.5
Turnout moved from 61.7% in 2002 to 64.1% in 2022, +2.4 pp.
64.1 − 61.7 = +2.4
The name Rafiq Ansari 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, 64.1%

2002 61.7%

2007 50.9%

2012 64.3%

2017 64.5%

2022 64.1%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Rafiq Ansari	Samajwadi Party	26,065	13.0	64.1
2017	Rafiq Ansari	Samajwadi Party	28,769	14.8	64.5
2012	Dr. Laxmikant Bajpai	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,278	3.5	64.3
2007	Neeraj Kushwaha	Bahujan Samaj Party	3,659	2.7	50.9
2002	Sharadveer Singh	Samajwadi Party	16,061	11.5	61.7

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 28,769 votes

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