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.[1][2][3]

Gorakhpur Urban
Constituency No. 322 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictGorakhpur
LS constituencyGorakhpur
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  BJP
AllianceNDA
Elected year2022

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 Kumar Srivastava Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977 Janata Party
1980 Sunil Shastri Indian National Congress
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

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Yogi Adityanath 165,499 66.18 Increase10.33
SP Sabhawati Shukla 62,109 24.84 new
BSP Khwaja Shamsuddin 8,023 3.21 Decrease7.90
Azad Samaj Party Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan 7,640 3.06 new
INC Chetna Pandey 2,880 1.15 Decrease26.95
RRP Ram Davan Maurya 490 0.2 N/A
NOTA None of the Above 1,194
Majority 103,390
Turnout
BJP hold Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agarwal 1,22,221 55.85
INC Rana Rahul Singh 61,491 28.10
BSP Janardan Chaudhary 24,297 11.10
PECP Arun Kumar Srivastava 2,252 1.03
RLD Vinod Kumar Rai 946 0.43
NOTA None of the Above 839 0.38
Majority 60,730 27.75
Turnout 2,19,439 51.12
BJP hold Swing

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Dr. 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

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