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Ayodhya

Assembly constituency 275 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2017

[01]Result · 2017

#275 · GEN
Poll date4 Mar 2017
Contestants14
Electors3,50,971
Votes polled2,15,944
Turnout61.5%
NOTA1,5440.4% of votes
WinnerVed Prakash GuptaBharatiya Janata Party1,07,01449.2% of votes
MARGIN50,440 votes · 23.4 pp1,07,014 − 56,574
Runner-upTej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan Pandey Samajwadi Party56,57426.0% of votes
BJP 65.4% of top-two votesSP 34.6%

All candidates 14

  1. 01 Ved Prakash GuptaBJP1,07,014 49.2%
  2. 02 Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan PandeySP56,574 26.0%
  3. 03 Mo. Bazmi SiddekeBSP39,554 18.2%
  4. 04 Banshi Lal YadavBMP5,661 2.6%
  5. 05 Sushil JaiswalAP1,635 0.8%
  6. 06 Suryakant PandeyCPI1,353 0.6%
  7. 07 Dr. Ripunjay SinghACP737 0.3%
  8. 08 Dharmendra Kumar UppadhyayRLD644 0.3%
  9. 09 Devki Nandan MauryaJAP585 0.3%
  10. 10 Mahesh Kumar NishadJPS532 0.2%
  11. 11 Radhe Shyam ShrivastavaIND492 0.2%
  12. 12 Pradeep Kumar KoriRPI(A)406 0.2%
  13. 13 Deelip ChaudhariMAP398 0.2%
  14. 14 Akhilesh Kumar Alias Akhilesh ChaturvediCPI(ML)L359 0.2%

Turnout 61.5%

025507510061.5%TURNOUT◦ state median 60.5%
Male 1.90 lakh54.0% Female 1.61 lakh46.0%

Share of 3,50,971 electors

  • Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males852
  • NOTAreported alongside the total1,544 · 0.4%
  • State median turnoutmedian of 403 seats, 201760.5%
  • ReconciliationΣ 14 candidates = 2,15,944Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

  1. 2002
    25.3 pp
    Ajay KapoorIndian National Congress
  2. 2007
    16.7 pp
    Ajay KapoorIndian National Congress
  3. 2012
    2.8 pp
    Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan PandeySamajwadi Party
  4. 2017
    23.4 pp
    Ved Prakash GuptaBharatiya Janata Party
  5. 2022
    8.7 pp
    Ved PrakashBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 25.3 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. The top two polled 75.8% of votes; the other 12 candidates 24.2% between them.

    (1,07,014 + 56,574) ÷ 2,15,944 = 75.8% · 52,356 ÷ 2,15,944 = 24.2%

  2. Turnout of 61.5% was 1.0 pp above the state's median seat (60.5%).

    61.5 − 60.5 = +1.0

  3. The margin widened from 2.8 pp in 2012 to 23.4 pp.

    23.4 − 2.8 = +20.6 pp

  4. Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan Pandey, the 2012 winner, finished second in 2017.

    2012 winner name = 2017 runner-up name

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified
  • Candidate votesΣ 14 candidate lines2,15,944
  • NOTAreported alongside the total1,544
  • Published totalVotes polled2,15,944
  • 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 2017 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates14 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2017 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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