Constituency
318. Maharajganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2022
UP-MAHARAJGANJ
BJP 51.8%won by 29.3%IND 22.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.7% to 29.3%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.5% — it polled just 0.6% in 2017.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
4,14,570
Turnout
63.4%
Valid votes
2,62,672
Margin
76,903
29.28%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1JAY MANGALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,36,07151.8%
- 2NIRMESH MANGALIndependent · IND59,16822.5%
- 3GEETA RATNASuheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party · SBSP22,3958.5%
- 4OMPRAKASHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP20,4667.8%
- 5JITENDRAAll India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen · AIMIM7,7513.0%
- 6ALOK PRASADIndian National Congress · INC5,8652.2%
- 7None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA2,8481.1%
- 8RAMKEVALCommunist Party of India · CPI2,8141.1%
- 9AMARNATHAam Aadmi Party · AAP1,5210.6%
- 10AWADHESHIndependent · IND1,2740.5%
- 11SHAILENDARBMP · BMP1,0540.4%
- 12VIRENDARLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP7680.3%
- 13MANOJ KUMARAJP · AJP6770.3%
Since 2017
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −20.7%
- BJP share
- 50.6% → 51.8%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 22.5%
- Turnout
- 63.9% → 63.4%