Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Shahganj

Assembly constituency 240 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#240 · SC

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants13

Electors3,31,394

Votes polled1,34,712

Turnout40.7%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerJagdish SonkarSamajwadi Party41,35430.7% of votes

MARGIN666 votes · 0.5 pp41,354 − 40,688

Runner-upRampher Gautam Bahujan Samaj Party40,68830.2% of votes

SP 50.4% of top-two votesBSP 49.6%

All candidates 13

01 Jagdish SonkarSP41,354 30.7%
02 Rampher GautamBSP40,688 30.2%
03 Bankelal SonkarBJP31,917 23.7%
04 Anita RawatSBSP8,924 6.6%
05 Ram LalIND3,364 2.5%
06 Mewa Lal PuskarINC2,740 2.0%
07 Anil Kumar SonkarLJP1,463 1.1%
08 Jhau LalIND842 0.6%
09 Yogendra Kumar Paswan Alias JogiRSD834 0.6%
10 Madan Prasad KewatPMSP759 0.6%
11 Abhay Raj BhartiIND731 0.5%
12 Jai PrakashIND559 0.4%
13 Ram Nayan KurilIJP537 0.4%

Turnout 40.7%

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 13 candidates = 1,34,712Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
4.1 pp
Jagdis SonkarSamajwadi Party
2007
0.5 pp
Jagdish SonkarSamajwadi Party
2012
2.0 pp
Syed Qasim HasanSamajwadi Party
2017
16.3 pp
Vikram SinghBharatiya Janata Party
2022
4.1 pp
Chandra PrakashSamajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 16.3 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 31,917 votes, 48× the 666-vote margin.
31,917 ÷ 666 = 47.9
The top two polled 60.9% of votes; the other 11 candidates 39.1% between them.
(41,354 + 40,688) ÷ 1,34,712 = 60.9% · 52,670 ÷ 1,34,712 = 39.1%
Turnout of 40.7% was 5.8 pp below the state's median seat (46.5%).
40.7 − 46.5 = −5.8
The margin narrowed from 4.1 pp in 2002 to 0.5 pp.
0.5 − 4.1 = −3.6 pp
SP held the seat it won in 2002.
2002 SP · 2007 SP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 13 candidate lines1,34,712
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,34,712
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

Candidates13 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