Gorakhpur Urban Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gorakhpur Urban is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gorakhpur in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1][2][3]
| Gorakhpur Urban | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 322 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Gorakhpur |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Gorakhpur |
| Total electors | 4,64,784 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
.jpg) | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2022 |
| Preceded by | R. M. Das Agarwal, BJP |
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
| 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 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
2027
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Yogi Adityanath | ||||
| SP | |||||
| BSP | |||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Yogi Adityanath | 165,499 | 66.18 |  10.33 | |
| SP | Subhavati Shukla | 62,109 | 24.84 | ||
| BSP | Khwaja Shamsuddin | 6,157 | 3.21 |  7.89 | |
| ASP(KR) | Chandrashekhar Azad | 5,764 | 3.06 | New | |
| INC | Chetna Pandey | 4,288 | 1.15 | 26.95 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,194 | 0.48 | 0.1 | |
| Majority | 103,390 | 41.34 | 13.59 | ||
| Turnout | 250,067 | 53.8 | 2.82 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | 10.33 |
|||
2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Radha Mohan Das Agarwal | 122,221 | 55.85 | ||
| INC | Rana Rahul Singh | 61,491 | 28.1 | ||
| BSP | Janardan Chaudhary | 24,297 | 11.1 | ||
| PECP | Arun Kumar Shrivastava | 2,252 | 1.03 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 839 | 0.38 | ||
| Majority | 60,730 | 27.75 | |||
| Turnout | 218,831 | 50.98 | |||
| BJP hold | Swing | 6.66 |
|||
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 | ||||