Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

Bhojpur

Assembly constituency 195 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#195 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants16

Electors2,87,622

Votes polled1,72,326

Turnout59.9%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerJamaluddin SiddiquiSamajwadi Party51,65030.0% of votes

MARGIN18,629 votes · 10.8 pp51,650 − 33,021

Runner-upMukesh Rajput Jan Kranti Party(Rashtrawadi)33,02119.2% of votes

SP 61.0% of top-two votesJKPR 39.0%

All candidates 16

01 Jamaluddin SiddiquiSP51,650 30.0%
02 Mukesh RajputJKPR33,021 19.2%
03 Saurabh RathoreBJP27,953 16.2%
04 Mahesh Singh RathoreBSP22,212 12.9%
05 Ram Sewak SinghINC21,202 12.3%
06 Bhawar SinghMD9,235 5.4%
07 Shyam KumarIND1,243 0.7%
08 UrmilaIND1,007 0.6%
09 Munni DeviAD798 0.5%
10 Sarvendra SinghNCP757 0.4%
11 Avineesh Kumar SinghIND703 0.4%
12 Hargovind SinghRL633 0.4%
13 PadamsinghIND579 0.3%
14 Chander KishorJPS496 0.3%
15 DurgawatiIND474 0.3%
16 Ezaj AhamadIND363 0.2%

Turnout 59.9%

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 16 candidates = 1,72,326Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
14.2 pp
Durga Prasad YadavSamajwadi Party
2007
8.6 pp
Durga Prasad YadavSamajwadi Party
2012
10.8 pp
Jamaluddin SiddiquiSamajwadi Party
2017
18.6 pp
Nagendra Singh RathoreBharatiya Janata Party
2022
14.0 pp
Nagendra Singh RathourBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 18.6 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 27,953 votes, 1.5× the 18,629-vote margin.
27,953 ÷ 18,629 = 1.5
The top two polled 49.1% of votes; the other 14 candidates 50.9% between them.
(51,650 + 33,021) ÷ 1,72,326 = 49.1% · 87,655 ÷ 1,72,326 = 50.9%
Turnout of 59.9% was 0.5 pp above the state's median seat (59.4%).
59.9 − 59.4 = +0.5
The margin widened from 8.6 pp in 2007 to 10.8 pp.
10.8 − 8.6 = +2.2 pp
SP held the seat it won in 2007.
2007 SP · 2012 SP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 16 candidate lines1,72,326
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,72,326
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

Candidates16 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