Constituency
236. Kerakat
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2002
UP-KERAKAT
BJP 32.9%won by 0.8%BSP 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.9% to 0.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 961 votes (0.76%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,27,010
Margin
961
0.76%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SOMARU RAM SAROJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,78832.9%
- 2NAND KISHOREBahujan Samaj Party · BSP40,82732.1%
- 3VIJAY KUMAR SONKARSamajwadi Party · SP32,98926.0%
- 4DR. SOCHAN RAM SONKARIndian National Congress · INC4,8593.8%
- 5RAM MURAT KANNAUJIARTKP · RTKP3,6512.9%
- 6BACHAU RAMIndependent · IND1,7781.4%
- 7JIYALAL PASIApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1,1180.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −7.1%
- BJP share
- 38.0% → 32.9%
- BSP share
- 30.1% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- — → —