Gorakhpur Urban Assembly constituency

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
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictGorakhpur
Lok Sabha constituencyGorakhpur
Total electors4,64,784
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  BJP
AllianceNDA
Elected year2022
Preceded byR. 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

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Election results

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2022

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Yogi Adityanath 165,499 66.18 Increase10.33
SP Subhavati Shukla 62,109 24.84
BSP Khwaja Shamsuddin 8,023 3.21 Decrease7.89
ASP(KR) Chandrashekhar Azad 7,640 3.06 New
INC Chetna Pandey 2,880 1.15 Decrease26.95
NOTA None of the above 1,194 0.48 Increase0.1
Majority 103,390 41.34 Increase13.59
Turnout 250,067 53.8 Increase2.82
BJP hold Swing Increase10.33

2017

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2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban[1]
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 Increase6.66


2012

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2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
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


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