Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Gorakhpur Urban

Assembly constituency 322 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Adityanath · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

27.9pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

1,03,390votes

41.5 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

53.0%

Seat median 50.8% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 41.5 pp

2002
0.8 pp
Sovran SinghBharatiya Janata Partyby 925 votes
2007
14.9 pp
Sobaran SinghSamajwadi Partyby 17,329 votes
2012
28.8 pp
Dr Radha Mohan Das AgarwalBharatiya Janata Partyby 47,454 votes
2017
27.9 pp
Dr. Radha Mohan Das AgrawalBharatiya Janata Partyby 60,730 votes
2022
41.5 pp
AdityanathBharatiya Janata Partyby 1,03,390 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 36 parties and independents

BJP 4 of 580% won SP 1 of 425% won · 3 second IND 0 of 410% won BSP 0 of 50% won · 1 second INC 0 of 50% won · 1 second LKD 0 of 20% won PECP 0 of 20% won AAP 0 of 10% won

Won of candidatures, counted from the published candidate lines; independents are counted together.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP won 4 of 5 contests on record (80.0%).
wins by party: BJP 4 · SP 1 · 4 ÷ 5 = 80.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 BJP → 2007 SP → 2012 BJP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2002 at 0.8 pp; the widest 2022 at 41.5 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 41.5 pp was 13.6 pp above the seat's median of 27.9 pp.
41.5 − 27.9 = +13.6
Turnout moved from 54.3% in 2002 to 53.0% in 2022, −1.3 pp.
53.0 − 54.3 = −1.3

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 50.8%

2002 54.3%

2007 46.3%

2012 46.2%

2017 50.8%

2022 53.0%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Gorakhpur Urban, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,03,390	41.5	53.0
2017	Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agrawal	Bharatiya Janata Party	60,730	27.9	50.8
2012	Dr Radha Mohan Das Agarwal	Bharatiya Janata Party	47,454	28.8	46.2
2007	Sobaran Singh	Samajwadi Party	17,329	14.9	46.3
2002	Sovran Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	925	0.8	54.3

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 1,03,390 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Gorakhpur Urban, Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Party recordCounted from the published candidate lines for this seat · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Medians and countsComputed from the contests on this page when the page was built