Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Ghazipur

Assembly constituency 217 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#217 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants21

Electors2,75,578

Votes polled1,36,124

Turnout49.4%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerSaiyyada Shadab FatimaSamajwadi Party41,82930.7% of votes

MARGIN1,131 votes · 0.8 pp41,829 − 40,698

Runner-upUmashankar Kushwaha Bahujan Samaj Party40,69829.9% of votes

SP 50.7% of top-two votesBSP 49.3%

All candidates 21

01 Saiyyada Shadab FatimaSP41,829 30.7%
02 Umashankar KushwahaBSP40,698 29.9%
03 Babulal BalwantBJP17,538 12.9%
04 SavitriSBSP11,431 8.4%
05 MarkandeINC10,927 8.0%
06 DevnarayanIND2,176 1.6%
07 RamashankarRLD1,977 1.5%
08 KedarCPI1,920 1.4%
09 NarsinghPMSP1,633 1.2%
10 Manoj S/o BanwariIND986 0.7%
11 Razia SultanaIPH755 0.6%
12 DinanathRASHTR670 0.5%
13 Sulab KushwahaIND626 0.5%
14 Sanjay LalIND547 0.4%
15 Manoj S/o SukhdeoASP448 0.3%
16 JhullanIND433 0.3%
17 DurgeshSJPR407 0.3%
18 Naubat Singh MauryaRSP361 0.3%
19 Lalit MohanIND312 0.2%
20 Niraj RaiBHARAT304 0.2%
21 RajeshIND143 0.1%

Turnout 49.4%

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, 200746.5%
ReconciliationΣ 21 candidates = 1,36,121Residual 3

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.5 pp
UmashankerBahujan Samaj Party
2007
0.8 pp
Saiyyada Shadab FatimaSamajwadi Party
2012
13.7 pp
Satish MahanaBharatiya Janata Party
2017
39.0 pp
Satish MahanaBharatiya Janata Party
2022
32.8 pp
Satish MahanaBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 39.0 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 17,538 votes, 16× the 1,131-vote margin.
17,538 ÷ 1,131 = 15.5
The top two polled 60.6% of votes; the other 19 candidates 39.4% between them.
(41,829 + 40,698) ÷ 1,36,124 = 60.6% · 53,594 ÷ 1,36,124 = 39.4%
Turnout of 49.4% was 2.9 pp above the state's median seat (46.5%).
49.4 − 46.5 = +2.9
The margin widened from 0.5 pp in 2002 to 0.8 pp.
0.8 − 0.5 = +0.3 pp
The seat changed hands: BSP in 2002, SP in 2007.
2002 BSP · 2007 SP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 21 candidate lines1,36,121
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,36,124
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 3

Candidate votes miss the published total by 3, 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

Candidates21 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