SP in Chitrakoot District: Seats and Vote Share in 2017 and 2022

This report looks at how the Samajwadi Party performed in the 2 assembly seats of Chitrakoot district in the 2017 and 2022 Uttar Pradesh elections. According to Election Commission of India data, the party won 0 of these seats in 2017 and 1 in 2022. In 2022 its share of all valid votes cast across the district’s seats was 39.28%, as calculated by UP Election News from seat wise figures.

SP in Chitrakoot: seat wise position

Seat	2017	2022	2022 votes	2022 share
Chitrakoot (236)	Second	Won	1,04,771	43.23%
Manikpur (237)	Not in top three	Second	72,084	34.67%

Table: UP Election News. Data: Election Commission of India. For 2017 the ECI top three candidates are used.

Seats the SP won in 2022

In Chitrakoot, Anil Kumar Anil Pradhan won by 20,876 votes over the BJP candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay, a comfortable win.

The 2017 contest

The SP did not win a seat in Chitrakoot in 2017. That year the district’s seats were shared as follows: BJP 2. In Chitrakoot, Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay of the BJP won by 26,936 votes. In Manikpur, R.k. Singh Patel of the BJP won by 44,464 votes.

Where the SP finished second

The party was runner up in 1 seat in 2022: Manikpur, where it trailed by 1,048 votes. Seats lost by narrow margins are usually the first ones parties target in the next election.

Reading the numbers

Compared with 2017, the SP gained 1 seat in Chitrakoot. Statewide, the Samajwadi Party’s tally rose from 47 seats to 111, its best result since 2012, so the district result can be read against that broader trend. Vote share also matters: a party can lose seats while still holding a large base of votes, which can be decisive in close contests in 2027.

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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