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.

Gorakhpur Urban
गोरखपुर शहरी
Constituency
for the Vidhan Sabha
District Gorakhpur
State Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created 2017
Party Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
Reservation None

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.[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

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. ↑ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 2017-08-25.

http://www.financialexpress.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-elections-2017/uttar-pradesh-elections-2017-gorakhpur-urban-constituency-bjps-ram-mohan-das-takes-on-congress-rana-rahul-singh-all-you-need-to-know/560448/lite/

http://www.news18.com/amp/news/politics/gorakhpur-urban-election-results-2017-radha-mohan-das-agrawal-of-bjp-leading-1358749.html


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