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
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Yogi Adityanath | 165,499 | 66.18 |  10.33
| |
| SP | Sabhawati Shukla | 62,109 | 24.84 | New | |
| BSP | Khwaja Shamsuddin | 8,023 | 3.21 |  7.90
| |
| ASP(KR) | Chandra Shekhar Azad | 7,640 | 3.06 | New | |
| INC | Chetna Pandey | 2,880 | 1.15 | 26.95
| |
| RRP | Ram Davan Maurya | 490 | 0.2 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,194 | 0.48 | 0.10
| |
| Majority | 1,03,390 | 41.34 | 13.59
| ||
| Turnout | 53.8 | 2.68
| |||
| BJP hold | Swing | 10.33
|
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2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Radha Mohan Das Agarwal | 122,221 | 55.85 | 6.66
| |
| INC | Rana Rahul Singh | 61,491 | 28.10 | 21.33
| |
| BSP | Janardan Chaudhary | 24,297 | 11.10 | 3.33
| |
| PECP | Arun Kumar Srivastava | 2,252 | 1.03 | 0.3
| |
| RLD | Vinod Kumar Rai | 946 | 0.43 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 839 | 0.38 | New | |
| Majority | 60,730 | 27.75 | 1.02
| ||
| Turnout | 2,19,439 | 51.12 | 4.93
| ||
| BJP hold | Swing | 6.66
|
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2012
| 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
- ^ "Gorakhpur Urban constituency; BJP's Radha Mohan Das takes on Congress' Rana Rahul Singh". www.financialexpress.com. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ "Gorakhpur Urban Election Results 2017: Radha Mohan Das Agrawal of BJP Leading". News18. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ "गोरखपुर शहरी विधानसभा चुनाव 2018 परिणाम, उत्तर प्रदेश". NDTV Khabar. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 25 May 2022.
External links
- "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.