Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Rajpur

Assembly constituency 280 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#280 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants16

Electors2,49,952

Votes polled1,16,268

Turnout46.5%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerMithlesh KumariBahujan Samaj Party45,25138.9% of votes

MARGIN19,833 votes · 17.1 pp45,251 − 25,418

Runner-upSanshank Shekhar Samajwadi Party25,41821.9% of votes

BSP 64.0% of top-two votesSP 36.0%

All candidates 16

01 Mithlesh KumariBSP45,251 38.9%
02 Sanshank ShekharSP25,418 21.9%
03 Krisna PatelAD25,198 21.7%
04 Satyaveer SinghINC7,409 6.4%
05 ShobhaBSK4,134 3.6%
06 NihalSSDAB2,068 1.8%
07 Shabana BegamIND1,608 1.4%
08 Shyam Baboo SharmaIND1,468 1.3%
09 Manoj SinghIND852 0.7%
10 PradeepIND656 0.6%
11 Mannu LalIND598 0.5%
12 Ajendra KumarBPD424 0.4%
13 Lalta PrasadIND405 0.4%
14 Pratap SinghIND333 0.3%
15 OmkarIND230 0.2%
16 Sudhir KumarLKD216 0.2%

Turnout 46.5%

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 16 candidates = 1,16,268Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.8 pp
Mahesh ChandraIndependent
2007
17.1 pp
Mithlesh KumariBahujan Samaj Party
2012
8.1 pp
Sher BahadurSamajwadi Party
2017
5.4 pp
Ritesh PandeyBahujan Samaj Party
2022
5.3 pp
Rakesh PandeySamajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 17.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed AD polled 25,198 votes, 1.3× the 19,833-vote margin.
25,198 ÷ 19,833 = 1.3
The top two polled 60.8% of votes; the other 14 candidates 39.2% between them.
(45,251 + 25,418) ÷ 1,16,268 = 60.8% · 45,599 ÷ 1,16,268 = 39.2%
Turnout of 46.5% matched the state's median seat.
46.5 − 46.5 = 0.0
The margin widened from 0.8 pp in 2002 to 17.1 pp.
17.1 − 0.8 = +16.3 pp
The seat changed hands: IND in 2002, BSP in 2007.
2002 IND · 2007 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 16 candidate lines1,16,268
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,16,268
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 2007 · 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 2007 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database