Gorakhpur Rural Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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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.
| Gorakhpur Rural | |
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| Constituency No. 323 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| 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 | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2017 |
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
| 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
| 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
| 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) | |||||