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
DistrictGorakhpur
StateUttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created2017
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
MLARadha Mohan Das Agarwal
ReservationNone

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.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Radha Mohan Das Agarwal who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rana Rahul Singh by a margin of 60,730 votes.[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly
Year Member Political Party
1951Istafa HussainIndian National Congress
1957
1962Niyamatullah Ansari
1967Udai Pratap DubeyBharatiya Jan Sangh
1969Ram Lal BhaiIndian National Congress
1974Awadhesh Kumar SrivastavaBharatiya Jan Sangh
1977Janata Party
1980Sunil ShastriIndian National Congress (Indira)
1985
1989Shiv Pratap ShuklaBharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996
2002Radha Mohan Das AgarwalAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha
2007Bharatiya Janata Party
2012
2017

Election results
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: 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 2,18,831 50.98
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: 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
  1. "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. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.


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