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Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2002

Varanasi North

Assembly constituency 227 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2002

[01]Result · 2002

#227 · GEN
Poll dateNot recordedNo poll date in the source
Contestants10
Electors2,91,078
Votes polled1,08,250
Turnout37.2%
NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013
WinnerAbdul KalamSamajwadi Party56,80552.5% of votes
MARGIN19,537 votes · 18.0 pp56,805 − 37,268
Runner-upRavindra Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party37,26834.5% of votes
SP 60.4% of top-two votesBJP 39.6%

All candidates 10

  1. 01 Abdul KalamSP56,805 52.5%
  2. 02 Ravindra JaiswalBJP37,268 34.5%
  3. 03 Abdul Aziz AnsariINC6,729 6.2%
  4. 04 Rajendra Prasad KushwahaBSP4,227 3.9%
  5. 05 Ram NarayanIND962 0.9%
  6. 06 Prem Chand (p.c. Gupta) "yuvraj"NCP927 0.9%
  7. 07 Kishun Lal SethRKP634 0.6%
  8. 08 Dinesh Kumar SrivastavaIND238 0.2%
  9. 09 Ganga Sahay PandeyABLTC190 0.2%
  10. 10 Rana Shah JaiswalABBP140 0.1%

Turnout 37.2%

025507510037.2%TURNOUT◦ state median 55.8%
Male 1.60 lakh54.9% Female 1.31 lakh45.1%

Share of 2,91,078 electors

  • Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males820
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • State median turnoutmedian of 403 seats, 200255.8%
  • ReconciliationΣ 10 candidates = 1,08,120Residual 130

Seat history 2002–2022

  1. 2002
    18.0 pp
    Abdul KalamSamajwadi Party
  2. 2007
    2.5 pp
    Haji Abdul Samad AnsariSamajwadi Party
  3. 2012
    0.6 pp
    Feran LalBahujan Samaj Party
  4. 2017
    32.8 pp
    Manohar LalBharatiya Janata Party
  5. 2022
    33.1 pp
    Manohar LalBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 33.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. The top two polled 86.9% of votes; the other 8 candidates 13.0% between them.

    (56,805 + 37,268) ÷ 1,08,250 = 86.9% · 14,047 ÷ 1,08,250 = 13.0%

  2. Turnout of 37.2% was 18.6 pp below the state's median seat (55.8%).

    37.2 − 55.8 = −18.6

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed
  • Candidate votesΣ 10 candidate lines1,08,120
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • Published totalVotes polled1,08,250
  • Checkneither convention holdsResidual 130

Candidate votes miss the published total by 130, with NOTA counted inside or outside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha 2002 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates10 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Reconciliation failed

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2002 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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