Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Derapur

Assembly constituency 284 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#284 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants12

Electors2,50,986

Votes polled1,27,268

Turnout50.7%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerMahesh ChandraBahujan Samaj Party43,65634.3% of votes

MARGIN3,563 votes · 2.8 pp43,656 − 40,093

Runner-upDevendra Singh Urf Bole Singh Bharatiya Janata Party40,09331.5% of votes

BSP 52.1% of top-two votesBJP 47.9%

All candidates 12

01 Mahesh ChandraBSP43,656 34.3%
02 Devendra Singh Urf Bole SinghBJP40,093 31.5%
03 Samrath SinghSP35,792 28.1%
04 Khusi PrasadINC2,995 2.4%
05 Suresh NarayanIND1,545 1.2%
06 Saroj SinghIND915 0.7%
07 Manoj KumarBHARAT759 0.6%
08 Munshi LalIND435 0.3%
09 Shyam SinghIJP307 0.2%
10 Surendra SinghLKD293 0.2%
11 Jagdish NarayanIND240 0.2%
12 Manoj TrivediIND234 0.2%

Turnout 50.7%

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, 200746.5%
ReconciliationΣ 12 candidates = 1,27,264Residual 4

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
11.1 pp
Kamlesh Kumar PathakSamajwadi Party
2007
2.8 pp
Mahesh ChandraBahujan Samaj Party
2012
1.7 pp
Yasar ShahSamajwadi Party
2017
0.8 pp
Yasar ShahSamajwadi Party
2022
5.0 pp
MariyaSamajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 11.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed SP polled 35,792 votes, 10× the 3,563-vote margin.
35,792 ÷ 3,563 = 10.0
The top two polled 65.8% of votes; the other 10 candidates 34.2% between them.
(43,656 + 40,093) ÷ 1,27,268 = 65.8% · 43,515 ÷ 1,27,268 = 34.2%
Turnout of 50.7% was 4.2 pp above the state's median seat (46.5%).
50.7 − 46.5 = +4.2
The margin narrowed from 11.1 pp in 2002 to 2.8 pp.
2.8 − 11.1 = −8.3 pp
The seat changed hands: SP in 2002, BSP in 2007.
2002 SP · 2007 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 12 candidate lines1,27,264
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,27,268
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