Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2017

Bhagwantnagar

Assembly constituency 166 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2017

[01]Result · 2017

#166 · GEN

Poll date4 Mar 2017

Contestants12

Electors4,09,675

Votes polled2,31,605

Turnout56.5%

NOTA2,7300.7% of votes

WinnerHriday Narayan DikshitBharatiya Janata Party1,03,69844.3% of votes

MARGIN53,366 votes · 23.0 pp1,03,698 − 50,332

Runner-upShashank Shekhar Singh Bahujan Samaj Party50,33221.5% of votes

BJP 67.3% of top-two votesBSP 32.7%

All candidates 12

01 Hriday Narayan DikshitBJP1,03,698 44.3%
02 Shashank Shekhar SinghBSP50,332 21.5%
03 Ankit PariharINC49,605 21.2%
04 Kripa Shankar SinghLKD18,988 8.1%
05 Arjun SinghBSCP1,636 0.7%
06 Vinay Kumari SinghRLD1,426 0.6%
07 RameshwarIND1,342 0.6%
08 SukhdevSPI1,096 0.5%
09 Shyam KumarJAM1,069 0.5%
10 Ram Kumar PalRASHTR818 0.4%
11 NagendraBMP808 0.3%
12 Shailendra SinghRVP787 0.3%

Turnout 56.5%

Male 2.22 lakh54.1% Female 1.88 lakh45.9%

Share of 4,09,675 electors

Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males849
NOTAreported alongside the total2,730 · 0.7%
State median turnoutmedian of 403 seats, 201760.5%
ReconciliationΣ 12 candidates = 2,31,605Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.4 pp
Ram BhuwalBahujan Samaj Party
2007
9.8 pp
AmbikaBahujan Samaj Party
2012
11.5 pp
Kuldeep Singh SengarSamajwadi Party
2017
23.0 pp
Hriday Narayan DikshitBharatiya Janata Party
2022
17.5 pp
Ashutosh ShuklaBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 23.0 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

The top two polled 66.5% of votes; the other 10 candidates 33.5% between them.
(1,03,698 + 50,332) ÷ 2,31,605 = 66.5% · 77,575 ÷ 2,31,605 = 33.5%
Turnout of 56.5% was 4.0 pp below the state's median seat (60.5%).
56.5 − 60.5 = −4.0
The margin widened from 11.5 pp in 2012 to 23.0 pp.
23.0 − 11.5 = +11.5 pp
The seat changed hands: SP in 2012, BJP in 2017.
2012 SP · 2017 BJP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 12 candidate lines2,31,605
NOTAreported alongside the total2,730
Published totalVotes polled2,31,605
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 2017 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates12 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2017 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database