Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

Meerganj

Assembly constituency 119 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#119 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants14

Electors2,77,034

Votes polled1,83,919

Turnout66.4%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerSultan BaigBahujan Samaj Party57,44631.2% of votes

MARGIN7,921 votes · 4.3 pp57,446 − 49,525

Runner-upDr.D.C Verma Bharatiya Janata Party49,52526.9% of votes

BSP 53.7% of top-two votesBJP 46.3%

All candidates 14

01 Sultan BaigBSP57,446 31.2%
02 Dr.D.C VermaBJP49,525 26.9%
03 Haji Zahid Husain GudduSP35,299 19.2%
04 Jaideep Singh BararIND18,507 10.1%
05 Ramesh ChandraJKPR6,775 3.7%
06 Hulasi Ram RajputINC3,910 2.1%
07 Tarun Kumar GangwarJD(U)3,694 2.0%
08 Subhash Chandra SharmaNCP2,866 1.6%
09 Sia RamIND1,698 0.9%
10 Kalpana GangwarRLNP1,512 0.8%
11 Raghvendra Kumar SinghIND899 0.5%
12 Noni RamIND666 0.4%
13 Het Ram GangwarRL640 0.3%
14 Kamlesh KumarBKD482 0.3%

Turnout 66.4%

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, 201259.4%
ReconciliationΣ 14 candidates = 1,83,919Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
5.1 pp
Sita Ram NishadSamajwadi Party
2007
6.4 pp
Jitendra Kumar Bablu BhaiyaBahujan Samaj Party
2012
4.3 pp
Sultan BaigBahujan Samaj Party
2017
26.1 pp
Dr. D.C. VermaBharatiya Janata Party
2022
14.3 pp
Dr. D. C. VermaBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 26.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed SP polled 35,299 votes, 4.5× the 7,921-vote margin.
35,299 ÷ 7,921 = 4.5
The top two polled 58.2% of votes; the other 12 candidates 41.8% between them.
(57,446 + 49,525) ÷ 1,83,919 = 58.2% · 76,948 ÷ 1,83,919 = 41.8%
Turnout of 66.4% was 7.0 pp above the state's median seat (59.4%).
66.4 − 59.4 = +7.0
The margin narrowed from 6.4 pp in 2007 to 4.3 pp.
4.3 − 6.4 = −2.1 pp
BSP held the seat it won in 2007.
2007 BSP · 2012 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 14 candidate lines1,83,919
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,83,919
Checkcandidates = total, NOTA outside itHolds

Candidate votes equal the published total. NOTA is reported alongside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha 2012 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates14 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2012 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database