Constituency
257. Soraon
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2002
UP-SORAON
BSP 27.3%won by 0.6%SP 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which now leads by 0.6%.
- BSP vote shareBSP went from 30.5% to 27.3% of the vote here (−3.2%).
- New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 26.7% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.0% between them, down from 65.0% — the field split more ways.
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
1,38,023
Margin
765
0.55%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BSP- 1MOHD MUJTABA SIDDIQUIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP37,61927.3%
- 2JANKI DEVISamajwadi Party · SP36,85426.7%
- 3SANJAY KUMAR PATELApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD26,27119.0%
- 4RANG BAHADUR PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,49917.7%
- 5RAJDEV GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC4,1713.0%
- 6RAM JATAN YADAVIndependent · IND3,0952.2%
- 7RAKESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND1,2410.9%
- 8RAMAKANT YADAVRashtriya Parivartan Dal · RPD8560.6%
- 9BABU LAL PATELIndependent · IND8510.6%
- 10DEV NARAIN YADAVIndependent · IND7360.5%
- 11TILAKDHARIBKRP · BKRP6770.5%
- 12BHARAT PRASADMNVP · MNVP6180.4%
- 13MOHD. YUSUFMC · MC5350.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BSPflipped
- BSP–SP swing
- −29.9%
- BSP share
- 30.5% → 27.3%
- SP share
- 0.0% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —