Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Afzalgarh

Assembly constituency 3 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#3 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants16

Electors2,87,024

Votes polled1,68,677

Turnout58.8%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerMuhammad GaziBahujan Samaj Party59,49635.3% of votes

MARGIN8,430 votes · 5.0 pp59,496 − 51,066

Runner-upDr. Indra Dev Singh Bharatiya Janata Party51,06630.3% of votes

BSP 53.8% of top-two votesBJP 46.2%

All candidates 16

01 Muhammad GaziBSP59,496 35.3%
02 Dr. Indra Dev SinghBJP51,066 30.3%
03 Sheikh Sulaman Alias PappuSP23,522 14.0%
04 Husain AhmadINC21,472 12.7%
05 Pawan KumarRLD3,924 2.3%
06 Km. Prem LataBHARAT2,279 1.4%
07 RajpalIND1,238 0.7%
08 Arun KumarNCP1,107 0.7%
09 Chandra Pal SinghIND743 0.4%
10 Ratan SinghIND704 0.4%
11 Yash PalRJD629 0.4%
12 Sheikh AfzalASPI583 0.4%
13 Parsadi SinghPICHHR555 0.3%
14 ZakirNLP545 0.3%
15 RaghuveerIND462 0.3%
16 AbidCPI(ML)L349 0.2%

Turnout 58.8%

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 = 1,68,674Residual 3

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.4 pp
Indra DevBharatiya Janata Party
2007
5.0 pp
Muhammad GaziBahujan Samaj Party
2012
5.8 pp
Raghav LakhanpalBharatiya Janata Party
2017
1.7 pp
Sanjay GargSamajwadi Party
2022
2.5 pp
Rajeev GumberBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 5.8 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed SP polled 23,522 votes, 2.8× the 8,430-vote margin.
23,522 ÷ 8,430 = 2.8
The top two polled 65.5% of votes; the other 14 candidates 34.5% between them.
(59,496 + 51,066) ÷ 1,68,677 = 65.5% · 58,112 ÷ 1,68,677 = 34.5%
Turnout of 58.8% was 12.3 pp above the state's median seat (46.5%).
58.8 − 46.5 = +12.3
The margin widened from 0.4 pp in 2002 to 5.0 pp.
5.0 − 0.4 = +4.6 pp
The seat changed hands: BJP in 2002, BSP in 2007.
2002 BJP · 2007 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 16 candidate lines1,68,674
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,68,677
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 3

Candidate votes miss the published total by 3, 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

Candidates16 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