Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

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Assembly constituency 291 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#291 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants12

Electors2,41,353

Votes polled1,39,688

Turnout57.9%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerDhani RamSamajwadi Party47,84634.3% of votes

MARGIN296 votes · 0.2 pp47,846 − 47,550

Runner-upVinay Shakya Bahujan Samaj Party47,55034.1% of votes

SP 50.2% of top-two votesBSP 49.8%

All candidates 12

01 Dhani RamSP47,846 34.3%
02 Vinay ShakyaBSP47,550 34.1%
03 Satish Chandra PalBJP33,699 24.1%
04 Pramod KumarIND3,303 2.4%
05 Ramautar SinghINC2,878 2.1%
06 Samir SinghIND1,523 1.1%
07 Anil Kumar SinghJM1,202 0.9%
08 JagdishIND521 0.4%
09 KalpanaIND385 0.3%
10 Ram AvatarIND302 0.2%
11 Ashok KumarIND239 0.2%
12 Kailash NarayanIND216 0.2%

Turnout 57.9%

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 = 1,39,664Residual 24

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
5.6 pp
Vinay ShakyaBahujan Samaj Party
2007
0.2 pp
Dhani RamSamajwadi Party
2012
19.8 pp
Abdul Mashhood KhanSamajwadi Party
2017
9.6 pp
Kailash Nath ShuklaBharatiya Janata Party
2022
17.8 pp
Kailash NathBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 19.8 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 33,699 votes, 114× the 296-vote margin.
33,699 ÷ 296 = 113.8
The top two polled 68.3% of votes; the other 10 candidates 31.7% between them.
(47,846 + 47,550) ÷ 1,39,688 = 68.3% · 44,268 ÷ 1,39,688 = 31.7%
Turnout of 57.9% was 11.4 pp above the state's median seat (46.5%).
57.9 − 46.5 = +11.4
The margin narrowed from 5.6 pp in 2002 to 0.2 pp.
0.2 − 5.6 = −5.4 pp
Vinay Shakya, 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 lines1,39,664
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,39,688
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 24

Candidate votes miss the published total by 24, 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