Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Auraiya

Assembly constituency 285 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#285 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants15

Electors2,79,774

Votes polled1,38,084

Turnout49.4%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerShekharBahujan Samaj Party53,43538.7% of votes

MARGIN6,258 votes · 4.5 pp53,435 − 47,177

Runner-upKamlesh Kumar Samajwadi Party47,17734.2% of votes

BSP 53.1% of top-two votesSP 46.9%

All candidates 15

01 ShekharBSP53,435 38.7%
02 Kamlesh KumarSP47,177 34.2%
03 Gopi CharanBJP26,571 19.3%
04 Shree DharINC4,247 3.1%
05 Atar SinghCPI2,114 1.5%
06 Suresh KumarIND1,025 0.7%
07 Ram BabuBSKP879 0.6%
08 Saraswati NarayanIND768 0.6%
09 Sukhbeer SinghIND518 0.4%
10 Santosh KumarIND426 0.3%
11 Vibha TiwariIND195 0.1%
12 Manjul KumarIND169 0.1%
13 Gopal SwaroopIND156 0.1%
14 RajnarayanIND150 0.1%
15 Awadhesh KumarIND145 0.1%

Turnout 49.4%

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 15 candidates = 1,37,975Residual 109

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.8 pp
Ram Ji ShuklaBahujan Samaj Party
2007
4.5 pp
ShekharBahujan Samaj Party
2012
1.5 pp
Krishna Kumar OjhaBahujan Samaj Party
2017
30.4 pp
Sureshwar SinghBharatiya Janata Party
2022
20.0 pp
Sureshwar SinghBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 30.4 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 26,571 votes, 4.2× the 6,258-vote margin.
26,571 ÷ 6,258 = 4.2
The top two polled 72.9% of votes; the other 13 candidates 27.1% between them.
(53,435 + 47,177) ÷ 1,38,084 = 72.9% · 37,363 ÷ 1,38,084 = 27.1%
Turnout of 49.4% was 2.9 pp above the state's median seat (46.5%).
49.4 − 46.5 = +2.9
The margin widened from 0.8 pp in 2002 to 4.5 pp.
4.5 − 0.8 = +3.7 pp
BSP held the seat it won in 2002.
2002 BSP · 2007 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 15 candidate lines1,37,975
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,38,084
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 109

Candidate votes miss the published total by 109, 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

Candidates15 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