Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Seohara

Assembly constituency 1 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#1 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants12

Electors2,78,856

Votes polled1,52,515

Turnout54.7%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerYash Pal SinghBahujan Samaj Party47,75131.4% of votes

MARGIN14,878 votes · 9.8 pp47,751 − 32,873

Runner-upQutubddin Samajwadi Party32,87321.6% of votes

BSP 59.2% of top-two votesSP 40.8%

All candidates 12

01 Yash Pal SinghBSP47,751 31.4%
02 QutubddinSP32,873 21.6%
03 Mahaveer SinghBJP22,743 15.0%
04 Anwar JameelINC20,745 13.7%
05 Rana Pratap SinghRLD20,458 13.5%
06 Surender SinghIND3,290 2.2%
07 MatloobNNP1,177 0.8%
08 Mehboob AlamIND768 0.5%
09 Ram SinghIND696 0.5%
10 AthharIND620 0.4%
11 Akbar AliNLP514 0.3%
12 Nasir HusainIND391 0.3%

Turnout 54.7%

Electors by sex are not recorded for this contest.

Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 malesNot recorded
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
State median turnoutmedian of 403 seats, 200746.5%
ReconciliationΣ 12 candidates = 1,52,026Residual 489

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
1.3 pp
QutubudeenBahujan Samaj Party
2007
9.8 pp
Yash Pal SinghBahujan Samaj Party
2012
0.2 pp
Mahaveer Singh RanaBahujan Samaj Party
2017
10.2 pp
Naresh SainiIndian National Congress
2022
13.5 pp
Umar Ali KhanSamajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 13.5 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 22,743 votes, 1.5× the 14,878-vote margin.
22,743 ÷ 14,878 = 1.5
The top two polled 52.9% of votes; the other 10 candidates 46.8% between them.
(47,751 + 32,873) ÷ 1,52,515 = 52.9% · 71,402 ÷ 1,52,515 = 46.8%
Turnout of 54.7% was 8.2 pp above the state's median seat (46.5%).
54.7 − 46.5 = +8.2
The margin widened from 1.3 pp in 2002 to 9.8 pp.
9.8 − 1.3 = +8.5 pp
BSP held the seat it won in 2002.
2002 BSP · 2007 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 12 candidate lines1,52,026
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,52,515
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 489

Candidate votes miss the published total by 489, with NOTA counted inside or outside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha 2007 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates12 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Reconciliation failed

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2007 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database