Saharanpur district has 7 assembly constituencies: Behat, Nakur, Saharanpur Nagar, Saharanpur, Deoband, Rampur Maniharan (reserved for SC), Gangoh. In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election, the seats were shared as follows: BJP 5, SP 2. Five years earlier, in 2017, the tally was BJP 4, Congress 2, SP 1. This explainer from UP Election News sets out what happened on each seat, how vote shares and turnout moved, and where the district stands ahead of the 2027 election, using only official Election Commission data.
Seat by seat: Saharanpur in 2017 and 2022
| Seat | 2017 winner | 2022 winner | 2022 MLA | 2022 margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behat (1) | Congress | SP | Umar Ali Khan | 37,880 |
| Nakur (2) | BJP | BJP | Mukesh Choudhary | 315 |
| Saharanpur Nagar (3) | SP | BJP | Rajeev Gumber | 7,434 |
| Saharanpur (4) | Congress | SP | Ashu Malik | 30,745 |
| Deoband (5) | BJP | BJP | Brijesh | 7,104 |
| Rampur Maniharan (6) | BJP | BJP | Devender Kumar Nim | 20,593 |
| Gangoh (7) | BJP | BJP | Kirat Singh | 23,449 |
Table: UP Election News. Data: Election Commission of India.
What changed between 2017 and 2022
3 of the 7 seats changed hands between the two elections: Behat moved from Congress to SP; Saharanpur Nagar moved from SP to BJP; Saharanpur moved from Congress to SP. The remaining seats were retained by the party that had won them in 2017.
The closest result of 2022 in the district came in Nakur, where Mukesh Choudhary of the BJP won by 315 votes. The widest margin was recorded in Behat, where the SP candidate Umar Ali Khan won by 37,880 votes.
Vote share and turnout
Adding up the votes of all candidates across the district in 2022 gives the following shares: BJP 38.92%, SP 35.74%, BSP 18.81%, RLD 3.51%. These district level shares are calculated by UP Election News from seat wise ECI figures. Turnout across the 7 seats was about 71.43% in 2022 against 73.24% in 2017, and the number of registered electors grew from 23,60,225 to 25,89,997.
| Party | Seats 2017 | Seats 2022 | Vote share 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | 4 | 5 | 38.92% |
| SP | 1 | 2 | 35.74% |
| BSP | 0 | 0 | 18.81% |
| Congress | 2 | 0 | 0.60% |
Table: UP Election News. Vote share is the party’s share of all valid votes polled in the district’s seats.
The statewide picture
Across the state, the BJP won 312 seats in 2017 and 255 in 2022, while the Samajwadi Party rose from 47 to 111 seats. The BSP fell from 19 seats to 1, and the Congress from 7 to 2. Allies on both sides, such as Apna Dal (Soneylal), the NISHAD Party, the RLD and the SBSP, also won seats in 2022.
How the UP assembly is elected
Uttar Pradesh has 403 assembly constituencies, of which 84 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 2 for Scheduled Tribes. Their boundaries were fixed by the Delimitation Order of 2008, and the 2012, 2017 and 2022 elections were all held on these same boundaries, so results from these years can be compared seat by seat. Members are elected under the first past the post system, which means the candidate with the most valid votes wins even without a majority of votes. The 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly first met in 2022, so the next assembly election is due by early 2027.
All numbers in this article are taken from the official results published by the Election Commission of India. Vote shares are calculated on total valid votes, including NOTA where stated.
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Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly general elections 2017 and 2022. Original data: Election Commission of India statistical reports.
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