Constituency
131. Fakharpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2002
UP-FAKHARPUR
SP 41.6%won by 1.0%BJP 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedSamajwadi Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.2% to 1.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,338 votes (0.96%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 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
1,39,595
Margin
1,338
0.96%
Candidates
15 contested · winner SP- 1ARUN VEER SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP58,05941.6%
- 2MAYANKAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,72140.6%
- 3RAJESH SHUKLABahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,99610.7%
- 4HARI RAMIndependent · IND2,3631.7%
- 5SHAMSUDDIN WARSIIndian National Congress · INC1,9821.4%
- 6CHAUDHARI POORAN SINGHRTKP · RTKP1,7111.2%
- 7SUMIRANIndependent · IND1,3491.0%
- 8SANT RAMIndependent · IND4750.3%
- 9ANIL KUMARShiv Sena · SHS3350.2%
- 10PRADEEP KOOMARIndependent · IND3330.2%
- 11PANCHOOIndependent · IND2820.2%
- 12KAILASHIndependent · IND2800.2%
- 13LAXMI NARAYANIndependent · IND2380.2%
- 14NARAYANIndependent · IND2370.2%
- 15RAM SARANIndependent · IND2340.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- SP
- SP–BJP swing
- −6.3%
- SP share
- 45.4% → 41.6%
- BJP share
- 38.2% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —