Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

Menhdawal

Assembly constituency 312 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#312 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants19

Electors4,02,457

Votes polled2,07,723

Turnout51.6%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerLaxmikantSamajwadi Party56,13727.0% of votes

MARGIN16,073 votes · 7.7 pp56,137 − 40,064

Runner-upAnil Kumar Peace Party40,06419.3% of votes

SP 58.4% of top-two votesPECP 41.6%

All candidates 19

01 LaxmikantSP56,137 27.0%
02 Anil KumarPECP40,064 19.3%
03 Mo TayyabBSP33,271 16.0%
04 Rakesh Kumar Singh VaghelBJP30,550 14.7%
05 Madan Narayan SinghINC20,979 10.1%
06 Chandra Shekhar PandeyJD(U)10,907 5.3%
07 Rajendra KumarIND2,773 1.3%
08 Akhlaque HusainRUC1,506 0.7%
09 Lal Chandra YadavSBSP1,440 0.7%
10 Ratnesh MishraARVP1,406 0.7%
11 GunjanIND1,301 0.6%
12 Ram NarayanIND1,230 0.6%
13 NeelamNCP1,193 0.6%
14 PavanLKD1,053 0.5%
15 RamkrishnaIND1,019 0.5%
16 Subhash ChandraLJP911 0.4%
17 VijaykumarRL793 0.4%
18 HarishchandraSSD766 0.4%
19 Ram ChandraIND424 0.2%

Turnout 51.6%

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, 201259.4%
ReconciliationΣ 19 candidates = 2,07,723Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
13.5 pp
Ramesh Kumar SharmaBahujan Samaj Party
2007
26.7 pp
Pradeep Jain AdityaIndian National Congress
2012
7.7 pp
LaxmikantSamajwadi Party
2017
19.3 pp
Rakesh Singh BaghelBharatiya Janata Party
2022
2.2 pp
Anil Kumar TripathiNirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 26.7 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BSP polled 33,271 votes, 2.1× the 16,073-vote margin.
33,271 ÷ 16,073 = 2.1
The top two polled 46.3% of votes; the other 17 candidates 53.7% between them.
(56,137 + 40,064) ÷ 2,07,723 = 46.3% · 1,11,522 ÷ 2,07,723 = 53.7%
Turnout of 51.6% was 7.8 pp below the state's median seat (59.4%).
51.6 − 59.4 = −7.8
The margin narrowed from 26.7 pp in 2007 to 7.7 pp.
7.7 − 26.7 = −19.0 pp
The seat changed hands: INC in 2007, SP in 2012.
2007 INC · 2012 SP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 19 candidate lines2,07,723
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled2,07,723
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 2012 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates19 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2012 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database