Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2022

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Assembly constituency 342 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

[01]Result · 2022

#342 · GEN

Poll date10 Feb 2022

Contestants12

Electors3,19,371

Votes polled1,83,261

Turnout57.4%

NOTA1,8470.6% of votes

WinnerDeepak Kumar MishrBharatiya Janata Party85,75846.8% of votes

MARGIN16,861 votes · 9.2 pp85,758 − 68,897

Runner-upMurli Manohar Jaiswal Samajwadi Party68,89737.6% of votes

BJP 55.5% of top-two votesSP 44.5%

All candidates 12

01 Deepak Kumar MishrBJP85,758 46.8%
02 Murli Manohar JaiswalSP68,897 37.6%
03 Vinay Lalsahab TiwariBSP23,287 12.7%
04 Ramjee GiriINC2,079 1.1%
05 Bijay ShankerHJ766 0.4%
06 RamashrayMP455 0.3%
07 Ishwar Chand VishwakaramaBMP450 0.3%
08 Krishnchandra Dikshit AdvocateIND422 0.2%
09 Bhaskar MishraIND376 0.2%
10 Sudhir Kumar VishwakarmaRRP364 0.2%
11 MahanthAJPI208 0.1%
12 RamikbalSBSPS199 0.1%

Turnout 57.4%

Male 1.65 lakh51.6% Female 1.54 lakh48.2%

Share of 3,19,371 electors

Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males934
NOTAreported alongside the total1,847 · 0.6%
State median turnoutmedian of 403 seats, 202260.3%
ReconciliationΣ 12 candidates = 1,83,261Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
16.1 pp
Jagan Prasad GargBharatiya Janata Party
2007
9.3 pp
Jagan Prashad GargBharatiya Janata Party
2012
7.6 pp
Prem Prakash SinghSamajwadi Party
2017
7.0 pp
Suresh TiwariBharatiya Janata Party
2022
9.2 pp
Deepak Kumar MishrBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 16.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BSP polled 23,287 votes, 1.4× the 16,861-vote margin.
23,287 ÷ 16,861 = 1.4
The top two polled 84.4% of votes; the other 10 candidates 15.6% between them.
(85,758 + 68,897) ÷ 1,83,261 = 84.4% · 28,606 ÷ 1,83,261 = 15.6%
Turnout of 57.4% was 2.9 pp below the state's median seat (60.3%).
57.4 − 60.3 = −2.9
The margin widened from 7.0 pp in 2017 to 9.2 pp.
9.2 − 7.0 = +2.2 pp
BJP held the seat it won in 2017.
2017 BJP · 2022 BJP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 12 candidate lines1,83,261
NOTAreported alongside the total1,847
Published totalVotes polled1,83,261
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 2022 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates12 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2022 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database