Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Bilaspur

Assembly constituency 22 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#22 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants23

Electors2,99,634

Votes polled1,68,151

Turnout56.1%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerSanjay KapoorIndian National Congress35,04020.8% of votes

MARGIN722 votes · 0.4 pp35,040 − 34,318

Runner-upJwala Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party34,31820.4% of votes

INC 50.5% of top-two votesBJP 49.5%

All candidates 23

01 Sanjay KapoorINC35,040 20.8%
02 Jwala PrasadBJP34,318 20.4%
03 Beena BhardwajSP29,132 17.3%
04 Lakhwinder SinghBSP26,182 15.6%
05 Abdul SalamRLD15,505 9.2%
06 Dinesh KumarJM7,250 4.3%
07 RamautarIND5,040 3.0%
08 Dr. Zafar Ulla KhanIEMC2,439 1.5%
09 Jivendra SinghIND1,937 1.2%
10 Abdul QadirLPIVV1,336 0.8%
11 Rais BegIND1,209 0.7%
12 Hardeep SinghIND1,013 0.6%
13 Chhatra PalIND866 0.5%
14 Shankar LalIND860 0.5%
15 Suresh KumarAD852 0.5%
16 Virendra KumarIND830 0.5%
17 Ravi KumarRJD728 0.4%
18 Kaushal KumarIND694 0.4%
19 Mehndi HasanRPD692 0.4%
20 Nichhatra PalRPI(A)612 0.4%
21 Sita RamIND599 0.4%
22 Navneet KumarSHS534 0.3%
23 Sanjay SinghIND480 0.3%

Turnout 56.1%

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 23 candidates = 1,68,148Residual 3

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
12.0 pp
Beena BhardwajSamajwadi Party
2007
0.4 pp
Sanjay KapoorIndian National Congress
2012
8.5 pp
Kunvar BharatendraBharatiya Janata Party
2017
11.2 pp
SuchiBharatiya Janata Party
2022
0.6 pp
SuchiBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 12.0 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed SP polled 29,132 votes, 40× the 722-vote margin.
29,132 ÷ 722 = 40.3
The top two polled 41.2% of votes; the other 21 candidates 58.8% between them.
(35,040 + 34,318) ÷ 1,68,151 = 41.2% · 98,790 ÷ 1,68,151 = 58.8%
Turnout of 56.1% was 9.6 pp above the state's median seat (46.5%).
56.1 − 46.5 = +9.6
The margin narrowed from 12.0 pp in 2002 to 0.4 pp.
0.4 − 12.0 = −11.6 pp
The seat changed hands: SP in 2002, INC in 2007.
2002 SP · 2007 INC

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 23 candidate lines1,68,148
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,68,151
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

Candidates23 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