Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

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Assembly constituency 255 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#255 · SC

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants20

Electors3,16,484

Votes polled1,85,969

Turnout58.8%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerSatyaveer MunnaSamajwadi Party61,15332.9% of votes

MARGIN13,301 votes · 7.2 pp61,153 − 47,852

Runner-upBabu Lal #bhawara# Bahujan Samaj Party47,85225.7% of votes

SP 56.1% of top-two votesBSP 43.9%

All candidates 20

01 Satyaveer MunnaSP61,153 32.9%
02 Babu Lal #bhawara#BSP47,852 25.7%
03 VachaspatiIND28,073 15.1%
04 Ajay Kumar PasiINC22,039 11.9%
05 Nirmla PaswanBJP6,123 3.3%
06 Geeta DeviAD3,075 1.7%
07 KhushiramMD2,819 1.5%
08 Bharat LalIND2,379 1.3%
09 LallanNCP2,026 1.1%
10 Ashok Kumar SarojJD(U)1,796 1.0%
11 Santosh KumarIND1,390 0.7%
12 Pratiyush Kumar (Chamar)IND1,335 0.7%
13 Surendra ChaudharyRL1,091 0.6%
14 MunnaIND938 0.5%
15 VidyawatiRASHTR876 0.5%
16 Dinesh Chandra SonkarIND839 0.5%
17 Lock Bahadur Gond (Durya)IND702 0.4%
18 Rambrij GautamRJPK498 0.3%
19 RajkumarYVP485 0.3%
20 Govind KumarIND480 0.3%

Turnout 58.8%

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, 201259.4%
ReconciliationΣ 20 candidates = 1,85,969Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
17.2 pp
Mahesh Narain SinghSamajwadi Party
2007
0.9 pp
Rakesh Dhar TripathiBahujan Samaj Party
2012
7.2 pp
Satyaveer MunnaSamajwadi Party
2017
8.4 pp
Jamuna PrasadApna Dal (Soneylal)
2022
2.5 pp
Geeta Shastri (Pasi)Samajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 17.2 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed IND polled 28,073 votes, 2.1× the 13,301-vote margin.
28,073 ÷ 13,301 = 2.1
The top two polled 58.6% of votes; the other 18 candidates 41.4% between them.
(61,153 + 47,852) ÷ 1,85,969 = 58.6% · 76,964 ÷ 1,85,969 = 41.4%
Turnout of 58.8% was 0.6 pp below the state's median seat (59.4%).
58.8 − 59.4 = −0.6
The margin widened from 0.9 pp in 2007 to 7.2 pp.
7.2 − 0.9 = +6.3 pp
The seat changed hands: BSP in 2007, SP in 2012.
2007 BSP · 2012 SP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 20 candidate lines1,85,969
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,85,969
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 2012 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates20 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2012 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database