Constituency
34. Faridpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2002
UP-FARIDPUR
SP 35.2%won by 0.2%BJP 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedSamajwadi Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.0% to 0.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 238 votes (0.21%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,11,086
Margin
238
0.21%
Candidates
12 contested · winner SP- 1DR. SIYARAM SAGARSamajwadi Party · SP39,10635.2%
- 2VIJAY PAL SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,86835.0%
- 3CHANDRA BHAN MAURYABahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,38012.0%
- 4NAND RAMIndian National Congress · INC12,05310.9%
- 5RAM SINGHRTKP · RTKP1,9751.8%
- 6SOMPALIndependent · IND1,8221.6%
- 7DHARAM PAL SINGHIndian National Lok Dal · INLD8970.8%
- 8CH. RAM SINGH AZADApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD8810.8%
- 9KISHAN LALIndependent · IND6580.6%
- 10KAMLA DEVIIndependent · IND5550.5%
- 11BHUPENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND4890.4%
- 12P.J. VERMA ALIAS VERMA JEET VERMAJanahitha Paksha · JP4020.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- SP
- SP–BJP swing
- −21.8%
- SP share
- 48.2% → 35.2%
- BJP share
- 26.2% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- — → —