Constituency
236. Chitrakoot
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
UP-CHITRAKOOT
BJP 40.9%won by 12.2%SP 28.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 12.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 17.8% to 40.9% of the vote here (+23.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.5% of the vote between them, up from 62.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,56,631
Turnout
62.0%
Valid votes
2,21,199
Margin
26,936
12.18%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1CHANDRIKA PRASAD UPADHYAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP90,36640.9%
- 2VEER SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP63,43028.7%
- 3JAGDISH PRASAD GAUTAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP47,78021.6%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,5291.6%
- 5AMIT YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI3,3781.5%
- 6UGRASENNINSHAD · NINSHAD2,6791.2%
- 7CHHEDILALJAM · JAM2,5431.1%
- 8CHANDRA KISHOR DWIVEDIAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM1,7460.8%
- 9ASHISH SINGHRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD1,2370.6%
- 10SHIVA KANT SHASTRIIndependent · IND1,1860.5%
- 11DURGESHBMUP · BMUP1,1470.5%
- 12SATYNARAYANIndependent · IND1,1360.5%
- 13CHANDAN SINGHSWAJANPA · SWAJANPA1,0420.5%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–SP swing
- +30.1%
- BJP share
- 17.8% → 40.9%
- SP share
- 35.8% → 28.7%
- Turnout
- 60.5% → 62.0%