Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

Pratappur

Assembly constituency 257 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#257 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants16

Electors3,18,863

Votes polled1,83,094

Turnout57.4%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerVijma YadavSamajwadi Party62,58234.2% of votes

MARGIN12,808 votes · 7.0 pp62,582 − 49,774

Runner-upMohd.Mujtaba Siddiqi Bahujan Samaj Party49,77427.2% of votes

SP 55.7% of top-two votesBSP 44.3%

All candidates 16

01 Vijma YadavSP62,582 34.2%
02 Mohd.Mujtaba SiddiqiBSP49,774 27.2%
03 Shyam Surat UpadhyayINC24,990 13.6%
04 Durvijay Singh PatelAD22,808 12.5%
05 PiprahinPMSP5,189 2.8%
06 Rang Bahadur PatelBJP4,357 2.4%
07 Sanjay TiwariAITC3,442 1.9%
08 HublalIND3,140 1.7%
09 Amit Singh RanaRL1,603 0.9%
10 Ram KailashIND1,090 0.6%
11 Mehdi SahanIND1,072 0.6%
12 Shurendra Pratap YadawLJP804 0.4%
13 Hari Oum MauryaSSD789 0.4%
14 Reeta TripathiVJP527 0.3%
15 Shri Bhagwan DiwidiIJP513 0.3%
16 Reeta RajRASHTR414 0.2%

Turnout 57.4%

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 16 candidates = 1,83,094Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.6 pp
Mohd Mujtaba SiddiquiBahujan Samaj Party
2007
4.3 pp
Mohd. Muztaba SiddiqiBahujan Samaj Party
2012
7.0 pp
Vijma YadavSamajwadi Party
2017
1.3 pp
Mohd Mujtaba SiddquiBahujan Samaj Party
2022
4.8 pp
Vijama YadavSamajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 7.0 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed INC polled 24,990 votes, 2.0× the 12,808-vote margin.
24,990 ÷ 12,808 = 2.0
The top two polled 61.4% of votes; the other 14 candidates 38.6% between them.
(62,582 + 49,774) ÷ 1,83,094 = 61.4% · 70,738 ÷ 1,83,094 = 38.6%
Turnout of 57.4% was 2.0 pp below the state's median seat (59.4%).
57.4 − 59.4 = −2.0
The margin widened from 4.3 pp in 2007 to 7.0 pp.
7.0 − 4.3 = +2.7 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 16 candidate lines1,83,094
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,83,094
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

Candidates16 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