Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2017

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Assembly constituency 48 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2017

[01]Result · 2017

#48 · GEN

Poll date4 Mar 2017

Contestants15

Electors3,02,192

Votes polled1,94,778

Turnout64.5%

NOTA7380.2% of votes

WinnerRafiq AnsariSamajwadi Party1,03,21752.8% of votes

MARGIN28,769 votes · 14.8 pp1,03,217 − 74,448

Runner-upDr. Laxmikant Bajpai Bharatiya Janata Party74,44838.1% of votes

SP 58.1% of top-two votesBJP 41.9%

All candidates 15

01 Rafiq AnsariSP1,03,217 52.8%
02 Dr. Laxmikant BajpaiBJP74,448 38.1%
03 Pankaj JauliBSP12,636 6.5%
04 MehfoozIND1,391 0.7%
05 Gyanendra Kumar SharmaRLD667 0.3%
06 Wasiqul Hasan ZaidiIND500 0.3%
07 Rajeev Kumar GargIND340 0.2%
08 Rajesh Mohan SharmaIND323 0.2%
09 Dheeraj GoyalSHS279 0.1%
10 Amit SharmaHND275 0.1%
11 Jitendra VermaIND258 0.1%
12 MurtujaIND145 0.1%
13 Ch. Abdul Wahab AdvocateIND109 0.1%
14 PritiIND98 0.1%
15 AfzalUDFS92 0.1%

Turnout 64.5%

Male 1.66 lakh54.9% Female 1.36 lakh45.1%

Share of 3,02,192 electors

Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males820
NOTAreported alongside the total738 · 0.2%
State median turnoutmedian of 403 seats, 201760.5%
ReconciliationΣ 15 candidates = 1,94,778Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
11.5 pp
Sharadveer SinghSamajwadi Party
2007
2.7 pp
Neeraj KushwahaBahujan Samaj Party
2012
3.5 pp
Dr. Laxmikant BajpaiBharatiya Janata Party
2017
14.8 pp
Rafiq AnsariSamajwadi Party
2022
13.0 pp
Rafiq AnsariSamajwadi Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 14.8 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

The top two polled 91.2% of votes; the other 13 candidates 8.8% between them.
(1,03,217 + 74,448) ÷ 1,94,778 = 91.2% · 17,113 ÷ 1,94,778 = 8.8%
Turnout of 64.5% was 4.0 pp above the state's median seat (60.5%).
64.5 − 60.5 = +4.0
The margin widened from 3.5 pp in 2012 to 14.8 pp.
14.8 − 3.5 = +11.3 pp
Dr. Laxmikant Bajpai, the 2012 winner, finished second in 2017.
2012 winner name = 2017 runner-up name

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 15 candidate lines1,94,778
NOTAreported alongside the total738
Published totalVotes polled1,94,778
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 2017 · Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates15 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Verified

State median turnoutComputed from 403 seats on the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 2017 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database