Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

Shahabad

Assembly constituency 73 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#73 · GEN

Poll date7 Apr 2007

Contestants10

Electors2,79,246

Votes polled1,25,628

Turnout45.0%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerAshifBahujan Samaj Party41,72734.3% of votes

MARGIN4,006 votes · 3.2 pp41,727 − 37,721

Runner-upBabu Khan Samajwadi Party37,72131.1% of votes

BSP 52.5% of top-two votesSP 47.5%

All candidates 14

01 AshifBSP41,727 34.3%
02 Babu KhanSP37,721 31.1%
03 Narendra Pal SinghBJP19,426 16.0%
04 Ramnath TripathiIND13,819 11.4%
05 Ranjan DixitINC3,099 2.6%
06 Hari RamIND1,851 1.5%
07 Bhamar PalBHARAT1,337 1.1%
08 Sartaj KhanIND643 0.5%
09 MewaramIND439 0.4%
10 Praveen KumarIND365 0.3%
11 Abhishek TripathiIND347 0.3%
12 MahipalIND270 0.2%
13 Uday PratapIND233 0.2%
14 Ganga SagarIND219 0.2%

Turnout 45.0%

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 14 candidates = 1,21,496Residual 4,132

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
4.6 pp
Ganga Bhakt SinghBharatiya Janata Party
2007
3.2 pp
AshifBahujan Samaj Party
2012
4.3 pp
Viresh YadavSamajwadi Party
2017
22.0 pp
Sandeep Kumar SinghBharatiya Janata Party
2022
16.4 pp
Sandeep Kumar SinghBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 22.0 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 19,426 votes, 4.8× the 4,006-vote margin.
19,426 ÷ 4,006 = 4.8
The top two polled 63.2% of votes; the other 12 candidates 33.5% between them.
(41,727 + 37,721) ÷ 1,25,628 = 63.2% · 42,048 ÷ 1,25,628 = 33.5%
Turnout of 45.0% was 1.5 pp below the state's median seat (46.5%).
45.0 − 46.5 = −1.5
The margin narrowed from 4.6 pp in 2002 to 3.2 pp.
3.2 − 4.6 = −1.4 pp
The seat changed hands: BJP in 2002, BSP in 2007.
2002 BJP · 2007 BSP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 14 candidate lines1,21,496
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,25,628
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 4,132

Candidate votes miss the published total by 4,132, 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

Candidates14 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