Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

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Assembly constituency 236 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#236 · SC

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants12

Electors3,08,743

Votes polled1,16,927

Turnout37.9%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerBiraju RamBahujan Samaj Party42,58436.4% of votes

MARGIN10,238 votes · 8.8 pp42,584 − 32,346

Runner-upMunni Devi Samajwadi Party32,34627.7% of votes

BSP 56.8% of top-two votesSP 43.2%

All candidates 12

01 Biraju RamBSP42,584 36.4%
02 Munni DeviSP32,346 27.7%
03 Ashok KumarBJP30,742 26.3%
04 Rajnath RamINC3,749 3.2%
05 Subedar BaudhIND3,128 2.7%
06 Comrade Bachau RamIND1,074 0.9%
07 Vimla DeviRLD786 0.7%
08 Indrajeet KannaujiaIND684 0.6%
09 KailashIND564 0.5%
10 Munni LalRSP430 0.4%
11 Brij MohanRASHTR425 0.4%
12 Vidya SagarBRP414 0.4%

Turnout 37.9%

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 12 candidates = 1,16,926Residual 1

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.8 pp
Somaru Ram SarojBharatiya Janata Party
2007
8.8 pp
Biraju RamBahujan Samaj Party
2012
8.8 pp
Veer SinghSamajwadi Party
2017
12.4 pp
Chandrika Prasad UpadhyayBharatiya Janata Party
2022
8.7 pp
Anil Kumar Anil PradhanSamajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 12.4 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 30,742 votes, 3.0× the 10,238-vote margin.
30,742 ÷ 10,238 = 3.0
The top two polled 64.1% of votes; the other 10 candidates 35.9% between them.
(42,584 + 32,346) ÷ 1,16,927 = 64.1% · 41,996 ÷ 1,16,927 = 35.9%
Turnout of 37.9% was 8.6 pp below the state's median seat (46.5%).
37.9 − 46.5 = −8.6
The margin widened from 0.8 pp in 2002 to 8.8 pp.
8.8 − 0.8 = +8.0 pp
The seat changed hands: BJP in 2002, BSP in 2007.
2002 BJP · 2007 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 12 candidate lines1,16,926
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,16,927
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 1

Candidate votes miss the published total by 1, 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

Candidates12 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