28% of crorepati winners scored 50%+ victory margin

Among the victors in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 51 (25%) of the 205 winners who declared criminal cases triumphed by a vote share of 50% and above, said the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) in a press statement on Thursday. The Uttar Pradesh assembly has 403 seats.

Association for Democratic Reforms and Uttar Pradesh Election Watch analysed the vote share for the all 403 constituencies in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections-2022.

“In all, 103 (28%) out of 366 crorepati winners have won with a vote share of 50% and above,” said Sanjay Singh, coordinator, ADR.

Seventy-eight out of 205 winners with declared criminal cases have won against a runner-up with a clean background.

Among these 78 winners, three have won by a more than 30% margin of victory, said the press statement.

Among the 403 winners, there are 47 women and five of them won by a more than 20% victory margin. Anjula Singh Mahaur (BJP) from Hathras constituency won with the highest vote share of 59%.

Out of the total 209 re-elected MLAs, none won with less than 35% of the vote share in their respective constituencies. Among them, 64 (31%) got more than 50% of the vote share. In all, 92 (44%) re-elected MLAs have won with a less than 10% of victory margin whereas 17 have won by more than 30%, said Santosh, coordinator ADR.

“Out of 9,21,62,896 votes polled in Uttar Pradesh assembly (elections)-2022, 6,37,304 (0.69%) were polled for NOTA. The NOTA button instated (installed) by ECI in 2013 gave the voters the option of rejecting all the candidates in their constituency,” said Sanjay Singh.

Out of 9,21,62,896 votes polled in Uttar Pradesh assembly (elections)-2022, 6,37,304 (0.69%) were polled for NOTA. SANJAY SINGH, coordinator, ADR.