Constituency
342. Barhaj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
UP-BARHAJ
SP 42.4%won by 7.6%BSP 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 7.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- SP vote shareSP went from 21.7% to 42.4% of the vote here (+20.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.2% of the vote between them, up from 58.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,87,442
Turnout
53.9%
Valid votes
1,54,835
Margin
11,776
7.61%
Candidates
18 contested · winner SP- 1PREM PRAKASH SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP65,67242.4%
- 2RENU JAISWALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP53,89634.8%
- 3NARENDRA MISHRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,2916.0%
- 4DURGA PRASAD MISHRAPECP · PECP8,0105.2%
- 5VIRENDRA KUMAR CHAUDHARIIndian National Congress · INC5,8643.8%
- 6KASHINATHCommunist Party of India · CPI2,3331.5%
- 7SUDAMASuheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party · SBSP1,3360.9%
- 8CHANDRA SHEKHAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,1820.8%
- 9MARKENDE URF GUDDU MALLNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,0490.7%
- 10VIRENDRAIndependent · IND8370.5%
- 11SHAILENDRA PANDEYIndependent · IND8280.5%
- 12AJAY PRATAPRashtriya Lok Morcha · RLM8170.5%
- 13SURESHIndependent · IND7870.5%
- 14KALAKTARCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7580.5%
- 15VIJAY SHANKAR SINGH KAUSHIKIndependent · IND7420.5%
- 16RAMCHANDRAIndependent · IND6330.4%
- 17ANILIJP · IJP4180.3%
- 18DHRUV DEVJanata Dal (United) · JDU3820.2%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BSP swing
- +22.3%
- SP share
- 21.7% → 42.4%
- BSP share
- 36.4% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → 53.9%