Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Kishunpur

Assembly constituency 266 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#266 · SC

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants12

Electors2,62,651

Votes polled1,04,801

Turnout39.9%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerMurlidharBahujan Samaj Party38,35736.6% of votes

MARGIN4,867 votes · 4.6 pp38,357 − 33,490

Runner-upKrishna Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party33,49032.0% of votes

BSP 53.4% of top-two votesBJP 46.6%

All candidates 12

01 MurlidharBSP38,357 36.6%
02 Krishna PaswanBJP33,490 32.0%
03 Om Prakash GiharSP14,001 13.4%
04 IndrajeetINC3,819 3.6%
05 HarimohanIND3,459 3.3%
06 Mannulal ManjhiIJP3,147 3.0%
07 Motilal AdvocateCPI3,020 2.9%
08 Gita DeviIND1,843 1.8%
09 AngadIND1,205 1.2%
10 Satya PrakashIND1,018 1.0%
11 BrijeshRASHTR730 0.7%
12 Anil KumarIND708 0.7%

Turnout 39.9%

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 = 1,04,797Residual 4

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.7 pp
Krishna PaswanBharatiya Janata Party
2007
4.6 pp
MurlidharBahujan Samaj Party
2012
10.2 pp
Fareed Mahfooj KidwaiSamajwadi Party
2017
11.0 pp
Sakendra Pratap VermaBharatiya Janata Party
2022
0.1 pp
Sakendra PratapBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 11.0 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed SP polled 14,001 votes, 2.9× the 4,867-vote margin.
14,001 ÷ 4,867 = 2.9
The top two polled 68.6% of votes; the other 10 candidates 31.4% between them.
(38,357 + 33,490) ÷ 1,04,801 = 68.6% · 32,950 ÷ 1,04,801 = 31.4%
Turnout of 39.9% was 6.6 pp below the state's median seat (46.5%).
39.9 − 46.5 = −6.6
The margin widened from 0.7 pp in 2002 to 4.6 pp.
4.6 − 0.7 = +3.9 pp
Krishna Paswan, the 2002 winner, finished second in 2007.
2002 winner name = 2007 runner-up name

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 12 candidate lines1,04,797
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,04,801
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 4

Candidate votes miss the published total by 4, 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