Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2007

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Assembly constituency 55 (GEN) · Uttarakhand

State boardUttarakhand 2007

[01]Result · 2007

#55 · GEN

Poll date21 Feb 2007

Contestants10

Electors84,737

Votes polled50,497

Turnout59.6%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerKharak Singh BoharaBharatiya Janata Party12,34724.5% of votes

MARGIN367 votes · 0.7 pp12,347 − 11,980

Runner-upDr.Narayan Singh Jantwal Uttarakhand Kranti Dal11,98023.7% of votes

BJP 50.8% of top-two votesUKD 49.2%

All candidates 10

01 Kharak Singh BoharaBJP12,347 24.5%
02 Dr.Narayan Singh JantwalUKD11,980 23.7%
03 Jaya BishtINC11,164 22.1%
04 Dr. Harish Singh BishtNCP6,267 12.4%
05 Mahesh BhattBSP6,079 12.0%
06 Harish ChandraIND1,113 2.2%
07 Deepak ShahBHARAT466 0.9%
08 Khushal SinghIND463 0.9%
09 Zameer AhmadJM309 0.6%
10 Mohan ChandraSP307 0.6%

Turnout 59.6%

Electors by sex are not recorded for this contest.

Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 malesNot recorded
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
State median turnoutmedian of 70 seats, 200762.7%
ReconciliationΣ 10 candidates = 50,495Residual 2

Seat history 2022–2002

2022
8.3 pp
Kailash Chandra GahtoriBharatiya Janata Party
2017
30.1 pp
Kailash Chandra GahtoriBharatiya Janata Party
2012
13.9 pp
Sri Hemesh KharkwalIndian National Congress
2007
0.7 pp
Kharak Singh BoharaBharatiya Janata Party
2002
5.8 pp
Narayan Singh JantiwalUttarakhand Kranti Dal

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 30.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed INC polled 11,164 votes, 30× the 367-vote margin.
11,164 ÷ 367 = 30.4
The top two polled 48.2% of votes; the other 8 candidates 51.8% between them.
(12,347 + 11,980) ÷ 50,497 = 48.2% · 26,168 ÷ 50,497 = 51.8%
Turnout of 59.6% was 3.1 pp below the state's median seat (62.7%).
59.6 − 62.7 = −3.1
The margin narrowed from 5.8 pp in 2002 to 0.7 pp.
0.7 − 5.8 = −5.1 pp
The seat changed hands: UKD in 2002, BJP in 2007.
2002 UKD · 2007 BJP

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 10 candidate lines50,495
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled50,497
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 2

Candidate votes miss the published total by 2, with NOTA counted inside or outside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha 2007 · Uttarakhand · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates10 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Reconciliation failed

State median turnoutComputed from 70 seats on the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha 2007 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database