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
Yogi Adityanath
Current MLA and Incumbent Chief Minister of the State
Constituency details
CountryIndia
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictGorakhpur
LS constituencyGorakhpur
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLAYogi Adityanath
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 Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
1951Istafa Hussain Indian National Congress
1957
1962Niyamatullah Ansari
1967 Udai Pratap Dubey Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1969Ram Lal Bhai Indian National Congress
1974Awadhesh Kumar Srivastava Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1977 Janata Party
1980Sunil Shastri Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985 Indian National Congress
1989Shiv Pratap Shukla Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996
2002Radha Mohan Das Agarwal Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha
2007 Bharatiya Janata Party
2012
2017
2022Yogi Adityanath

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Yogi Adityanath 165,499 66.18 10.33
SP Sabhawati Shukla 62,109 24.84 new
BSP Khwaja Shamsuddin 8,023 3.21 7.90
Azad Samaj Party Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan 7,640 3.06 new
INC Chetna Pandey 2,880 1.15 26.95
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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