Constituency
261. Allahabad West
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
UP-ALLAHABAD-WEST
BSP 40.1%won by 5.0%AD 35.1%
What changed here
DerivedBahujan Samaj Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.6% to 5.0%.
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 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerApna Dal (Kamerawadi) (AD) finished second with 35.1% — it did not contest here in 2007.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.2% between them, down from 85.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,42,693
Turnout
51.7%
Valid votes
1,77,311
Margin
8,885
5.01%
Candidates
19 contested · winner BSP- 1POOJA PALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP71,11440.1%
- 2ATIQ AHAMADApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD62,22935.1%
- 3JYOTI YADAYSamajwadi Party · SP18,86710.6%
- 4RAMJI KESARWANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,7405.5%
- 5RAVI PRAKASHIndian National Congress · INC4,9332.8%
- 6AKHILESH KUMAR SINGHIJP · IJP1,8261.0%
- 7RAMESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND1,2740.7%
- 8BIRJU SONKARRashtriya Lok Morcha · RLM1,2100.7%
- 9SHAGIR AHMADIndependent · IND1,1570.7%
- 10KUSUM LATAJanata Dal (United) · JDU7060.4%
- 11PAPPUIndependent · IND6180.3%
- 12MANGALESH KUMARIndependent · IND6050.3%
- 13VIRENDRA KUMARIndependent · IND5840.3%
- 14GANESH JI TRIPATHIIndependent · IND5530.3%
- 15SANT KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND5390.3%
- 16POONAM SANTAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC4040.2%
- 17CHANDAN SINGHPSJP · PSJP3570.2%
- 18ROSHAN LALLD · LD3560.2%
- 19NAGENDRA SINGHLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP2390.1%
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–AD swing
- −42.1%
- BSP share
- 47.1% → 40.1%
- AD share
- 0.0% → 35.1%
- Turnout
- — → 51.7%