Kanpur Dehat District Assembly Seats: 2017 vs 2022 Results Explained

Kanpur Dehat district has 4 assembly constituencies: Rasulabad (reserved for SC), Akbarpur-Raniya, Sikandra, Bhognipur. In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election, the seats were shared as follows: BJP 4. Five years earlier, in 2017, the tally was BJP 4. 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: Kanpur Dehat in 2017 and 2022

Seat	2017 winner	2022 winner	2022 MLA	2022 margin
Rasulabad (205)	BJP	BJP	Poonam Sankhwar	21,512
Akbarpur-Raniya (206)	BJP	BJP	Pratibha Shukla	13,417
Sikandra (207)	BJP	BJP	Ajit Singh Pal	31,567
Bhognipur (208)	BJP	BJP	Rakesh Sachan	11,893

Table: UP Election News. Data: Election Commission of India.

What changed between 2017 and 2022

None of the 4 seats changed hands. Every seat was retained in 2022 by the party that had won it in 2017, which points to a stable voting pattern in the district.

The closest result of 2022 in the district came in Bhognipur, where Rakesh Sachan of the BJP won by 11,893 votes. The widest margin was recorded in Sikandra, where the BJP candidate Ajit Singh Pal won by 31,567 votes.

Vote share and turnout

Adding up the votes of all candidates across the district in 2022 gives the following shares: BJP 43.84%, SP 34.34%, BSP 17.42%, Independent 1.58%. These district level shares are calculated by UP Election News from seat wise ECI figures. Turnout across the 4 seats was about 61.94% in 2022 against 62.73% in 2017, and the number of registered electors grew from 12,73,766 to 13,32,826.

Party	Seats 2017	Seats 2022	Vote share 2022
BJP	4	4	43.84%
SP	0	0	34.34%
BSP	0	0	17.42%

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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