Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

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Assembly constituency 81 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#81 · GEN

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants15

Electors3,02,037

Votes polled2,10,397

Turnout69.7%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerTejpal SinghRashtriya Lok Dal94,75745.0% of votes

MARGIN14,594 votes · 6.9 pp94,757 − 80,163

Runner-upLaxminarayan Bahujan Samaj Party80,16338.1% of votes

RLD 54.2% of top-two votesBSP 45.8%

All candidates 15

01 Tejpal SinghRLD94,757 45.0%
02 LaxminarayanBSP80,163 38.1%
03 HemantIND11,868 5.6%
04 Tarun Kumar SethBJP7,101 3.4%
05 Lokmani Kant JadaunSP5,628 2.7%
06 Tej SinghAIMF3,942 1.9%
07 Shyam SundarIND1,402 0.7%
08 MadhoIND1,331 0.6%
09 Moho. Ashraf (Dr. Shekh)VANCHI1,022 0.5%
10 Subhash ChandIND978 0.5%
11 Kulbhanu KumarCPI873 0.4%
12 Kumar SenIND458 0.2%
13 VirenderIOP333 0.2%
14 Ajay Pal SinghRL294 0.1%
15 Mohan Singh RajputJKPR247 0.1%

Turnout 69.7%

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 15 candidates = 2,10,397Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
7.1 pp
Udai RajSamajwadi Party
2007
3.0 pp
Uday RajSamajwadi Party
2012
6.9 pp
Tejpal SinghRashtriya Lok Dal
2017
28.2 pp
Laxmi NarayanBharatiya Janata Party
2022
20.6 pp
Laxmi NarayanBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 28.2 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

The top two polled 83.1% of votes; the other 13 candidates 16.9% between them.
(94,757 + 80,163) ÷ 2,10,397 = 83.1% · 35,477 ÷ 2,10,397 = 16.9%
Turnout of 69.7% was 10.3 pp above the state's median seat (59.4%).
69.7 − 59.4 = +10.3
The margin widened from 3.0 pp in 2007 to 6.9 pp.
6.9 − 3.0 = +3.9 pp
The seat changed hands: SP in 2007, RLD in 2012.
2007 SP · 2012 RLD

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Verified

Candidate votesΣ 15 candidate lines2,10,397
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled2,10,397
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

Candidates15 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