Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

Allahabad West

Assembly constituency 261 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#261 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants19

Electors3,42,693

Votes polled1,77,311

Turnout51.7%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerPooja PalBahujan Samaj Party71,11440.1% of votes

MARGIN8,885 votes · 5.0 pp71,114 − 62,229

Runner-upAtiq Ahamad Apna Dal62,22935.1% of votes

BSP 53.3% of top-two votesAD 46.7%

All candidates 19

01 Pooja PalBSP71,114 40.1%
02 Atiq AhamadAD62,229 35.1%
03 Jyoti YadaySP18,867 10.6%
04 Ramji KesarwaniBJP9,740 5.5%
05 Ravi PrakashINC4,933 2.8%
06 Akhilesh Kumar SinghIJP1,826 1.0%
07 Ramesh ChandraIND1,274 0.7%
08 Birju SonkarRL1,210 0.7%
09 Shagir AhmadIND1,157 0.7%
10 Kusum LataJD(U)706 0.4%
11 PappuIND618 0.3%
12 Mangalesh KumarIND605 0.3%
13 Virendra KumarIND584 0.3%
14 Ganesh Ji TripathiIND553 0.3%
15 Sant Kumar SinghIND539 0.3%
16 Poonam SantAITC404 0.2%
17 Chandan SinghPARIVA357 0.2%
18 Roshan LalLKD356 0.2%
19 Nagendra SinghLJP239 0.1%

Turnout 51.7%

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, 201259.4%
ReconciliationΣ 19 candidates = 1,77,311Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
10.8 pp
Atiq AhmadApna Dal
2007
8.6 pp
Pooja PalBahujan Samaj Party
2012
5.0 pp
Pooja PalBahujan Samaj Party
2017
12.9 pp
Sidharth Nath SinghBharatiya Janata Party
2022
13.5 pp
Sidharth Nath SinghBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 13.5 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed SP polled 18,867 votes, 2.1× the 8,885-vote margin.
18,867 ÷ 8,885 = 2.1
The top two polled 75.2% of votes; the other 17 candidates 24.8% between them.
(71,114 + 62,229) ÷ 1,77,311 = 75.2% · 43,968 ÷ 1,77,311 = 24.8%
Turnout of 51.7% was 7.7 pp below the state's median seat (59.4%).
51.7 − 59.4 = −7.7
The margin narrowed from 8.6 pp in 2007 to 5.0 pp.
5.0 − 8.6 = −3.6 pp
Pooja Pal also won in 2007.
2007 winner name = 2012 winner name

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 19 candidate lines1,77,311
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,77,311
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

Candidates19 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