Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Varanasi South

Assembly constituency 226 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#226 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants14

Electors2,28,983

Votes polled71,407

Turnout31.2%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerShyam Deo Roy Chaudhary DadaBharatiya Janata Party33,02146.2% of votes

MARGIN13,702 votes · 19.2 pp33,021 − 19,319

Runner-upDr. Dayashankar Misra Dayalu Indian National Congress19,31927.1% of votes

BJP 63.1% of top-two votesINC 36.9%

All candidates 14

01 Shyam Deo Roy Chaudhary DadaBJP33,021 46.2%
02 Dr. Dayashankar Misra DayaluINC19,319 27.1%
03 Dilip Kumar DaySP11,956 16.7%
04 Vikram Vij Alias Vikki PunjabiBSP4,400 6.2%
05 Sankatha Prasad Pandey Alias BumguruIND590 0.8%
06 Iftekhar Husain Alias ChunnaRJD453 0.6%
07 Chotelal NishadSBSP326 0.5%
08 Arun PathakIND245 0.3%
09 Sheela Singh Chauhan AdvocateIND239 0.3%
10 Awadhesh Kumar MishraBPD233 0.3%
11 Ramshankar GuptaIND215 0.3%
12 Vishnu Dayal SethSHS193 0.3%
13 Yogesh BramhachariIND120 0.2%
14 Dharmendra SinghRKSP97 0.1%

Turnout 31.2%

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 14 candidates = 71,407Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
25.2 pp
Shyam Dew Rai Chaudhari (dada)Bharatiya Janata Party
2007
19.2 pp
Shyam Deo Roy Chaudhary DadaBharatiya Janata Party
2012
4.1 pp
Ramesh Prasad KushwahaBahujan Samaj Party
2017
21.8 pp
Ramratan KushwahaBharatiya Janata Party
2022
32.6 pp
Ramratan KushwahaBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 32.6 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

The top two polled 73.3% of votes; the other 12 candidates 26.7% between them.
(33,021 + 19,319) ÷ 71,407 = 73.3% · 19,067 ÷ 71,407 = 26.7%
Turnout of 31.2% was 15.3 pp below the state's median seat (46.5%).
31.2 − 46.5 = −15.3
The margin narrowed from 25.2 pp in 2002 to 19.2 pp.
19.2 − 25.2 = −6.0 pp
BJP held the seat it won in 2002.
2002 BJP · 2007 BJP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 14 candidate lines71,407
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled71,407
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 2007 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates14 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2007 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database