Constituency
303. Kapilvastu
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
UP-KAPILVASTU
BJP 48.5%won by 16.2%SP 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 16.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 21.8% to 48.5% of the vote here (+26.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.8% of the vote between them, up from 63.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 54.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,30,659
Turnout
54.6%
Valid votes
2,35,129
Margin
38,154
16.23%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SHYAM DHANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,14,08248.5%
- 2VIJAY KUMARSamajwadi Party · SP75,92832.3%
- 3CHANDRA BHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP37,16615.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,6231.1%
- 5PINGAL PRASADIndependent · IND2,1060.9%
- 6DEVENDRA NATHBMUP · BMUP2,0630.9%
- 7NAND RAMIndependent · IND1,1610.5%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–SP swing
- +35.6%
- BJP share
- 21.8% → 48.5%
- SP share
- 41.2% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- 49.6% → 54.6%