Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

Chhaprauli

Assembly constituency 50 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#50 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants13

Electors2,79,600

Votes polled1,45,524

Turnout52.0%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerVir PalRashtriya Lok Dal69,39447.7% of votes

MARGIN21,571 votes · 14.8 pp69,394 − 47,823

Runner-upDev Pal Singh Bahujan Samaj Party47,82332.9% of votes

RLD 59.2% of top-two votesBSP 40.8%

All candidates 13

01 Vir PalRLD69,394 47.7%
02 Dev Pal SinghBSP47,823 32.9%
03 Manoj KumarSP14,103 9.7%
04 VedpalBJP4,534 3.1%
05 Jaheer AhamadPECP3,310 2.3%
06 VajidIND1,633 1.1%
07 Mohammad TanveerRLNP1,125 0.8%
08 SubhashLKD1,099 0.8%
09 Nasreen KhanAITC871 0.6%
10 SatyendraJD(U)739 0.5%
11 AmitBVP373 0.3%
12 RavindraIND370 0.3%
13 ArvindRL150 0.1%

Turnout 52.0%

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, 201259.4%
ReconciliationΣ 13 candidates = 1,45,524Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
16.1 pp
Suresh Kumar KhannaBharatiya Janata Party
2007
8.2 pp
Suresh Kumar KhannaBharatiya Janata Party
2012
14.8 pp
Vir PalRashtriya Lok Dal
2017
1.9 pp
Sahender Singh RamalaRashtriya Lok Dal
2022
14.1 pp
Ajay KumarRashtriya Lok Dal

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

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

The top two polled 80.5% of votes; the other 11 candidates 19.5% between them.
(69,394 + 47,823) ÷ 1,45,524 = 80.5% · 28,307 ÷ 1,45,524 = 19.5%
Turnout of 52.0% was 7.4 pp below the state's median seat (59.4%).
52.0 − 59.4 = −7.4
The margin widened from 8.2 pp in 2007 to 14.8 pp.
14.8 − 8.2 = +6.6 pp
The seat changed hands: BJP in 2007, RLD in 2012.
2007 BJP · 2012 RLD

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 13 candidate lines1,45,524
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,45,524
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

Candidates13 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