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Gorakhpur Urban (Assembly Constituency)

Gorakhpur Urban is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gorakhpur Urban in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Gorakhpur Urban is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 322 amongst 403 constituencies.

In 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Yogi Adityanath as well as the incumbent Chief Minister of Uttar Pradeshwon the seat by defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Sabhawati Shukla by a margin of 1,03,390 votes.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
1951 Istafa Hussain Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Niyamatullah Ansari
1967 Udai Pratap Dubey Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969 Ram Lal Bhai Indian National Congress
1974 Awadhesh Kumar Srivastava Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977 Janata Party
1980 Sunil Shastri Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1989 Shiv Pratap Shukla Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996
2002 Radha Mohan Das Agarwal Hindu Mahasabha
2007 Bharatiya Janata Party
2012
2017
2022 Yogi Adityanath

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Yogi Adityanath 165,499 66.18 Increase10.33
SP Sabhawati Shukla 62,109 24.84 New
BSP Khwaja Shamsuddin 8,023 3.21 Decrease7.90
ASP(KR) Chandra Shekhar Azad 7,640 3.06 New
INC Chetna Pandey 2,880 1.15 Decrease26.95
RRP Ram Davan Maurya 490 0.2 New
NOTA None of the Above 1,194 0.48 Increase0.10
Majority 1,03,390 41.34 Increase13.59
Turnout 53.8 Increase2.68
BJP hold Swing Increase10.33

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Radha Mohan Das Agarwal 122,221 55.85 Increase6.66
INC Rana Rahul Singh 61,491 28.10 Increase21.33
BSP Janardan Chaudhary 24,297 11.10 Decrease3.33
PECP Arun Kumar Srivastava 2,252 1.03 Decrease0.3
RLD Vinod Kumar Rai 946 0.43 New
NOTA None of the Above 839 0.38 New
Majority 60,730 27.75 Decrease1.02
Turnout 2,19,439 51.12 Increase4.93
BJP hold Swing Increase6.66

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Radha Mohan Das Agarwal 81,148 49.19
SP Raj Kumari Devi 33,694 20.42
BSP Divesh Chandra Srivastava 23,811 14.43
INC Narendra Mani Tripathi 11,171 6.77
PECP Dr. Vijay Kumar 2,187 1.33
Majority 47,454 28.77
Turnout 1,64,973 46.19
BJP hold Swing

References

  1. ^ "Gorakhpur Urban constituency; BJP's Radha Mohan Das takes on Congress' Rana Rahul Singh". www.financialexpress.com. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Gorakhpur Urban Election Results 2017: Radha Mohan Das Agrawal of BJP Leading". News18. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  3. ^ "गोरखपुर शहरी विधानसभा चुनाव 2018 परिणाम, उत्तर प्रदेश". NDTV Khabar. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 25 May 2022.

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