Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Bhojipura

Assembly constituency 38 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#38 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants16

Electors2,60,666

Votes polled1,43,485

Turnout55.0%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerShazil Islam AnsariBahujan Samaj Party39,33927.4% of votes

MARGIN1,130 votes · 0.8 pp39,339 − 38,209

Runner-upBahoran Lal Maurya Bharatiya Janata Party38,20926.6% of votes

BSP 50.7% of top-two votesBJP 49.3%

All candidates 16

01 Shazil Islam AnsariBSP39,339 27.4%
02 Bahoran Lal MauryaBJP38,209 26.6%
03 Virendra Singh GangwarSP31,973 22.3%
04 Sardar KhanIEMC13,637 9.5%
05 Abdul QadeerINC8,922 6.2%
06 Narendra Pal SinghIND2,375 1.7%
07 Satendra SinghIND1,786 1.2%
08 Mohd.Israr KhanRLD1,327 0.9%
09 Madan LalIND988 0.7%
10 Manoj SinghIND973 0.7%
11 Rohan LalABRS930 0.7%
12 Rameshwar Dayal GangwarJM812 0.6%
13 Shahar Yaar KhanRJD726 0.5%
14 Shanti MauryaIND689 0.5%
15 Mohd.IslamIND402 0.3%
16 Jhamman LalIND396 0.3%

Turnout 55.0%

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 = 1,43,484Residual 1

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
4.5 pp
Virendra SinghSamajwadi Party
2007
0.8 pp
Shazil Islam AnsariBahujan Samaj Party
2012
11.2 pp
Vijay SinghSamajwadi Party
2017
7.8 pp
RajbalaBharatiya Janata Party
2022
2.6 pp
Rajbala SinghBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 11.2 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed SP polled 31,973 votes, 28× the 1,130-vote margin.
31,973 ÷ 1,130 = 28.3
The top two polled 54.0% of votes; the other 14 candidates 46.0% between them.
(39,339 + 38,209) ÷ 1,43,485 = 54.0% · 65,936 ÷ 1,43,485 = 46.0%
Turnout of 55.0% was 8.5 pp above the state's median seat (46.5%).
55.0 − 46.5 = +8.5
The margin narrowed from 4.5 pp in 2002 to 0.8 pp.
0.8 − 4.5 = −3.7 pp
The seat changed hands: SP in 2002, BSP in 2007.
2002 SP · 2007 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 16 candidate lines1,43,484
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,43,485
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 1

Candidate votes miss the published total by 1, 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