Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2012

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Assembly constituency 85 (SC) · Uttar Pradesh

State boardUttar Pradesh 2012

[01]Result · 2012

#85 · SC

Poll date23 Feb 2012

Contestants12

Electors3,17,126

Votes polled1,91,087

Turnout60.3%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerPooran PrakashRashtriya Lok Dal79,36441.5% of votes

MARGIN32,094 votes · 16.8 pp79,364 − 47,270

Runner-upChandrabhan Singh Bahujan Samaj Party47,27024.7% of votes

RLD 62.7% of top-two votesBSP 37.3%

All candidates 12

01 Pooran PrakashRLD79,364 41.5%
02 Chandrabhan SinghBSP47,270 24.7%
03 Ajay Kumar PoeiaBJP45,372 23.7%
04 Anil KumarSP10,149 5.3%
05 Malla SinghAIMF2,632 1.4%
06 GyandasIND1,420 0.7%
07 Raja RamIND1,244 0.7%
08 Harish KumarLKD1,173 0.6%
09 OmvirIJP1,032 0.5%
10 Rajinder SinghIND694 0.4%
11 Rajkumar NatRASHTR442 0.2%
12 Krishna GopalLJP295 0.2%

Turnout 60.3%

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 12 candidates = 1,91,087Verified

Seat history 2002–2022

2002
0.5 pp
Vidya Sagar GuptaBharatiya Janata Party
2007
0.9 pp
Vidya Sagar GuptaBharatiya Janata Party
2012
16.8 pp
Pooran PrakashRashtriya Lok Dal
2017
5.7 pp
Pooran PrakashBharatiya Janata Party
2022
10.3 pp
Puran PrakashBharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 16.8 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed BJP polled 45,372 votes, 1.4× the 32,094-vote margin.
45,372 ÷ 32,094 = 1.4
The top two polled 66.3% of votes; the other 10 candidates 33.7% between them.
(79,364 + 47,270) ÷ 1,91,087 = 66.3% · 64,453 ÷ 1,91,087 = 33.7%
Turnout of 60.3% was 0.9 pp above the state's median seat (59.4%).
60.3 − 59.4 = +0.9
The margin widened from 0.9 pp in 2007 to 16.8 pp.
16.8 − 0.9 = +15.9 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 12 candidate lines1,91,087
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,91,087
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

Candidates12 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