Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

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Assembly constituency 314 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#314 · SC

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants11

Electors3,37,494

Votes polled1,86,620

Turnout55.3%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerAlagu Prasad ChauhanSamajwadi Party66,33735.5% of votes

MARGIN14,949 votes · 8.0 pp66,337 − 51,388

Runner-upRam Sidhare Bahujan Samaj Party51,38827.5% of votes

SP 56.3% of top-two votesBSP 43.7%

All candidates 11

01 Alagu Prasad ChauhanSP66,337 35.5%
02 Ram SidhareBSP51,388 27.5%
03 Neel ManiBJP40,491 21.7%
04 Surendra KumarPECP9,660 5.2%
05 Archana MahatamINC9,293 5.0%
06 Om HariSBSP3,726 2.0%
07 Dharm RajIND2,593 1.4%
08 ManjuHP896 0.5%
09 SubhashSSD770 0.4%
10 Ramashankar PaswanLJP744 0.4%
11 Ramanand KumarRL722 0.4%

Turnout 55.3%

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 11 candidates = 1,86,620Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
1.6 pp
Pragilal AhirwarBharatiya Janata Party
2007
7.3 pp
Bhagwati Prasad SagarBahujan Samaj Party
2012
8.0 pp
Alagu Prasad ChauhanSamajwadi Party
2017
8.5 pp
Shri Ram ChauhanBharatiya Janata Party
2022
4.9 pp
Ganesh ChandraBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 8.5 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 40,491 votes, 2.7× the 14,949-vote margin.
40,491 ÷ 14,949 = 2.7
The top two polled 63.1% of votes; the other 9 candidates 36.9% between them.
(66,337 + 51,388) ÷ 1,86,620 = 63.1% · 68,895 ÷ 1,86,620 = 36.9%
Turnout of 55.3% was 4.1 pp below the state's median seat (59.4%).
55.3 − 59.4 = −4.1
The margin widened from 7.3 pp in 2007 to 8.0 pp.
8.0 − 7.3 = +0.7 pp
The seat changed hands: BSP in 2007, SP in 2012.
2007 BSP · 2012 SP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 11 candidate lines1,86,620
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,86,620
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

Candidates11 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