Gorakhpur Rural (Assembly constituency)

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.

Gorakhpur Rural
Assembly Constituency
DistrictGorakhpur
StateUttar Pradesh
Electorate3,94,353 (2017)
Current Assembly Constituency
Created2017
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
MLABipin Singh
ReservationNone
Ex MLAVijay Bahadur Yadav (BJP)

The MLA is Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Bipin Singh who won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Vijay Bahadur Yadav by a margin of 4,410 votes.[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

# Term Member of Legislative Assembly Party From To Days Comment
0116th Vidhan SabhaVijay Bahadur YadavBhartiya Janata PartyMarch 2012March 20171,829[1]
0217th Vidhan SabhaBipin SinghMarch 2017Incumbent1407[1]

Election Results

2017 Assembly Elections: Gorakhpur Rural[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Bipin Singh 83,686 35.71 4.40
SP Vijay Bahadur Yadav 79,276 33.83 11.56
NISHAD Sanjay Kumar Nishad 34,901 14.89 New
BSP Rajesh Pandey 30,097 12.84 9.15
Remaining 8 Candidates 6,369 2.69
NOTA None of the Above 1,634 0.70 New
Majority 4,410 1.88 7.16
Turnout 2,35,963 59.84 4.66
Registered electors 3,94,353
BJP hold Swing 4.40
2012 Assembly Elections: 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
Remaining 24 Candidates 19,802 10.53
Majority 16,985 9.04
Turnout 1,87,979 55.18
BJP win (new seat)

References

  1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  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.


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