Gorakhpur Rural Assembly constituency

Gorakhpur Rural
Constituency No. 323 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gorakhpur
Total electors	3,94,353 (2017)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bipin Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2017

Gorakhpur Rural is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gorakhpur Rural in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 323 amongst 403 constituencies of the UP Legislative Assembly.

The incumbent MLA is Bharatiya Janta Party's Bipin Singh who won the 2022 UP Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Vijay Bahadur Yadav by 24,070 votes. ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Vijay Bahadur Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party
2017	Bipin Singh
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Rural ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bipin Singh	126,376	49.59	+14.12
	SP	Vijay Bahadur Yadav	102,306	40.14	+6.54
	BSP	Dara Singh Nishad	15,982	6.27	−6.48
	AIMIM	Mohd. Islam	3,519	1.38
	NOTA	None of the above	1,053	0.41	−0.29
Majority			24,070	9.45	+7.58
Turnout			254,865	60.79	+0.95
	BJP hold		Swing	13.88

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Rural ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bipin Singh	83,686	35.47
	SP	Vijay Bahadur Yadav	79,276	33.6
	NISHAD	Sanjay Kumar Nishad	34,901	14.79
	BSP	Rajesh Pandey	30,097	12.75
	NOTA	None of the above	1,634	0.7
Majority			4,410	1.87
Turnout			235,963	59.84
	BJP hold		Swing	+4.40

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Rural ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vijay Bahadur Yadav	58,849	31.31
	SP	Jafar Amin Dakku	41,864	22.27
	BSP	Ram Bhuwal Nishad	41,338	21.99
	INC	Kajal	17,636	9.38
	PECP	Chhedi Lal	8,490	4.52
Majority			16,985	9.04
Turnout			1,87,979	55.18
	BJP win (new seat)

References

1. "Assembly result 2022". Elections.in. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
2. "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Results". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
3. "Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

External links

• "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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