Constituency
253. Chail
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
UP-CHAIL
BSP 30.7%won by 0.7%SP 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedBahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.4% to 0.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,290 votes (0.72%) — 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
3,32,357
Turnout
53.8%
Valid votes
1,78,764
Margin
1,290
0.72%
Candidates
25 contested · winner BSP- 1MOHD ASHIF JAFRIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP54,79630.7%
- 2CHANDRA BALISamajwadi Party · SP53,50629.9%
- 3SHASHI BHUSHAN URF BALAMApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD21,75612.2%
- 4VIJAI PRAKASHIndian National Congress · INC14,5478.1%
- 5UDHOV SINGHIndependent · IND4,9842.8%
- 6LAKHAN SINGH RAJPASIBKRP · BKRP4,5652.6%
- 7JAI CHANDRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,5282.5%
- 8TIKAMIndependent · IND3,8182.1%
- 9M.U. AHMAD (MAMMU)Independent · IND2,6711.5%
- 10RAM MURATRashtriya Lok Morcha · RLM1,9591.1%
- 11RAM LALIndependent · IND1,6270.9%
- 12GYANENDRA PALIndependent · IND1,5640.9%
- 13SHUSHIL KUMAR DWIVEDILD · LD9250.5%
- 14SULTAN MOHAMMADIndependent · IND9190.5%
- 15RADHA KRISHNA DWIVEDINationalist Congress Party · NCP8090.5%
- 16PRABHU SHANKAR SHUKLAIJP · IJP7620.4%
- 17NASIR AZIZIndependent · IND7410.4%
- 18GYAN SINGHRSMD · RSMD7050.4%
- 19GOVIND NARAINPSJP · PSJP6930.4%
- 20RAJIV KUMARLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP6160.3%
- 21RAJENDRA KUMARIndependent · IND5950.3%
- 22RAM CHANDRAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC5490.3%
- 23MOHD RUFIIndependent · IND4650.3%
- 24RAJENDRA KUMARIndependent · IND3470.2%
- 25MUSHIR AHMADIndependent · IND3170.2%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- BSP
- BSP–SP swing
- −14.7%
- BSP share
- 37.8% → 30.7%
- SP share
- 22.4% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → 53.8%