Gorakhpur Urban Assembly constituency

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Gorakhpur Urban
Constituency No. 322 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region North India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Gorakhpur
Lok Sabha constituency Gorakhpur
Total electors4,64,784
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Yogi Adithyanath in Uttar Pradesh 2023.jpg
Incumbent
Party  BJP
Alliance NDA
Elected year2022
Preceded by R. M. Das Agarwal,   BJP

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. [1] [2] [3]

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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 Pradesh won the seat by defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Sabhawati Shukla by a margin of 1,03,390 votes.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearMemberParty
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 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 Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
2007 Bharatiya Janata Party
2012
2017
2022 Yogi Adityanath

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Yogi Adityanath 165,499 66.18 Increase2.svg10.33
SP Kalyan Chaudhary62,10924.84
BSP Khwaja Shamsuddin8,0233.21Decrease2.svg7.89
Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) Chandrashekhar Azad 7,6403.06
INC Chetna Pandey2,8801.15Decrease2.svg26.95
NOTA None of the above 1,1940.48Increase2.svg0.1
Majority 103,39041.34Increase2.svg13.59
Turnout 250,06753.8Increase2.svg2.82
BJP hold Swing Increase2.svg10.33


2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Radha Mohan Das Agarwal 122,221 55.85
INC Rana Rahul Singh61,49128.1
BSP Janardan Chaudhary24,29711.1
PECP Arun Kumar Shrivastava2,2521.03
NOTA None of the above 8390.38
Majority 60,73027.75
Turnout 218,83150.98
BJP hold Swing Increase2.svg6.66


2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Radha Mohan Das Agarwal 81,148 49.19
SP Raj Kumari Devi33,69420.42
BSP Divesh Chandra Srivastava23,81114.43
INC Narendra Mani Tripathi11,1716.77
PECP Dr. Vijay Kumar2,1871.33
Majority 47,45428.77
Turnout 1,64,97346.19
BJP hold Swing


References

  1. 1 2 "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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