Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Gorakhpur Urban Assembly Seat
]Uttar Pradesh Election: Gorakhpur Urban Assembly Constituency 2022
Gorakhpur Urban is the assembly constituency which comes under the Gorakhpur district. It is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 for Gorakhpur Urban will be held on March 3 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Gorakhpur Urban assembly seat had 4,29,167 registered voters. Of the, 2,35,184 were male and 1,93,983 were female voters. 0.2% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 23 candidates in the fray from Gorakhpur Urban constituency. Gorakhpur Urban was one of 312 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. It was a one way contest with Bharatiya Janata Party's Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agrawal comfortably winning the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Rana Rahul Singh by a huge margin of 60,730 votes.
The top three candidates split 95.4% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agrawal got a total of 1,22,221 votes, while Indian National Congress's Rana Rahul Singh secured 61,491 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Janardan Choudhari grabbed the third spot with 24,297 votes. The top three parties got 56.1%, 28.2% and 11.1% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Bharatiya Janata Party's Dr Radha Mohan Das Agarwal outperformed Samajwadi Party's Raj Kumari Devi by 47,454 votes.