Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

Dhampur

Assembly constituency 20 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#20 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants18

Electors2,52,629

Votes polled1,61,124

Turnout63.8%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerTh. Mool Chand ChauhanSamajwadi Party53,36533.1% of votes

MARGIN564 votes · 0.4 pp53,365 − 52,801

Runner-upAshok Kumar Rana Bahujan Samaj Party52,80132.8% of votes

SP 50.3% of top-two votesBSP 49.7%

All candidates 18

01 Th. Mool Chand ChauhanSP53,365 33.1%
02 Ashok Kumar RanaBSP52,801 32.8%
03 Anwar JamilINC36,995 23.0%
04 Rajendra SinghBJP9,962 6.2%
05 Bhupendra KumarPECP1,841 1.1%
06 Sarwar NaginwiANC1,064 0.7%
07 Haseeb AhmadAIMF916 0.6%
08 Suresh KumarRMD804 0.5%
09 Shokin SinghIJP642 0.4%
10 Rais AhmadLJP509 0.3%
11 Abdul KhaliqueSDPI425 0.3%
12 Naresh KumarLKD349 0.2%
13 Kahkashan ParveenAITC340 0.2%
14 BadshahNLP305 0.2%
15 Naubahar SinghRLNP271 0.2%
16 Zareena BegumRL238 0.1%
17 Jahan AaraSSD150 0.1%
18 Arun KumarJD(U)147 0.1%

Turnout 63.8%

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 18 candidates = 1,61,124Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
14.2 pp
Nawab Kazim Ali Khan Alias Naved MianIndian National Congress
2007
9.0 pp
Nawab Kazim Ali Khan Alias Navaid MianSamajwadi Party
2012
0.4 pp
Th. Mool Chand ChauhanSamajwadi Party
2017
9.3 pp
Ashok Kumar RanaBharatiya Janata Party
2022
0.1 pp
Ashok Kumar RanaBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 14.2 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed INC polled 36,995 votes, 66× the 564-vote margin.
36,995 ÷ 564 = 65.6
The top two polled 65.9% of votes; the other 16 candidates 34.1% between them.
(53,365 + 52,801) ÷ 1,61,124 = 65.9% · 54,958 ÷ 1,61,124 = 34.1%
Turnout of 63.8% was 4.4 pp above the state's median seat (59.4%).
63.8 − 59.4 = +4.4
The margin narrowed from 9.0 pp in 2007 to 0.4 pp.
0.4 − 9.0 = −8.6 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 18 candidate lines1,61,124
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,61,124
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

Candidates18 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