Ghaziabad
Assembly constituency 56 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022
[01]Winners and margins
- 2002
2.6 ppR.S. KushwahaBahujan Samaj Partyby 4,386 votes
- 2007
1.6 ppKrishna Gopal PatelSamajwadi Partyby 2,800 votes
- 2012
6.7 ppSuresh BansalBahujan Samaj Partyby 12,121 votes
- 2017
31.4 ppAtul GargBharatiya Janata Partyby 70,505 votes
- 2022
43.3 ppAtul GargBharatiya Janata Partyby 1,05,537 votes
[02]Parties on this seat
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 3 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BSP → 2007 SP → 2012 BSP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP -
The closest contest was 2007 at 1.6 pp; the widest 2022 at 43.3 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests -
The 2022 margin of 43.3 pp was 36.6 pp above the seat's median of 6.7 pp.
43.3 − 6.7 = +36.6 -
Turnout moved from 57.1% in 2002 to 51.3% in 2022, −5.8 pp.
51.3 − 57.1 = −5.8 -
The name Atul Garg 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
[05]Every contest
| Year | Winner | Party | Margin | Margin % | Turnout % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Atul Garg | Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,05,537 | 43.3 | 51.3 |
| 2017 | Atul Garg | Bharatiya Janata Party | 70,505 | 31.4 | 53.0 |
| 2012 | Suresh Bansal | Bahujan Samaj Party | 12,121 | 6.7 | 54.1 |
| 2007 | Krishna Gopal Patel | Samajwadi Party | 2,800 | 1.6 | 56.0 |
| 2002 | R.S. Kushwaha | Bahujan Samaj Party | 4,386 | 2.6 | 57.1 |
ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Ghaziabad, 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