Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

Gopalpur

Assembly constituency 344 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#344 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants16

Electors3,01,156

Votes polled1,63,039

Turnout54.1%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerWaseem AhmadSamajwadi Party77,69747.7% of votes

MARGIN30,134 votes · 18.5 pp77,697 − 47,563

Runner-upKamla Prasad Yadav Bahujan Samaj Party47,56329.2% of votes

SP 62.0% of top-two votesBSP 38.0%

All candidates 16

01 Waseem AhmadSP77,697 47.7%
02 Kamla Prasad YadavBSP47,563 29.2%
03 Yogendra YadavBJP11,078 6.8%
04 Alka SinghRUC10,512 6.4%
05 Dinesh YadavINC6,995 4.3%
06 MaksoodQED2,848 1.7%
07 Harihar Pandey Fauji SainikIND1,400 0.9%
08 DineshNCP999 0.6%
09 Ramchandra YadavJD(U)776 0.5%
10 Diwakar YadavRL755 0.5%
11 Beersen RajbharMSP649 0.4%
12 IzharulLJP427 0.3%
13 Subhash Mani PandeyIND372 0.2%
14 BhorikRJPK350 0.2%
15 Basai RamASP330 0.2%
16 Val Jeet PaswanRPI(A)288 0.2%

Turnout 54.1%

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 16 candidates = 1,63,039Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
5.8 pp
Ramesh Kant LawaniaBharatiya Janata Party
2007
10.5 pp
Bhagwan Singh KushwahaBahujan Samaj Party
2012
18.5 pp
Waseem AhmadSamajwadi Party
2017
8.0 pp
Nafees AhmadSamajwadi Party
2022
11.9 pp
Nafees AhmadSamajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 18.5 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

The top two polled 76.8% of votes; the other 14 candidates 23.2% between them.
(77,697 + 47,563) ÷ 1,63,039 = 76.8% · 37,779 ÷ 1,63,039 = 23.2%
Turnout of 54.1% was 5.3 pp below the state's median seat (59.4%).
54.1 − 59.4 = −5.3
The margin widened from 10.5 pp in 2007 to 18.5 pp.
18.5 − 10.5 = +8.0 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 16 candidate lines1,63,039
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,63,039
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

Candidates16 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