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
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gorakhpur
Lok Sabha constituency	Gorakhpur
Total electors	4,64,784
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Yogi Adityanath Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	R. 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

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

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath	165,499	66.18	10.33
	SP	Kalyan Chaudhary	62,109	24.84
	BSP	Khwaja Shamsuddin	8,023	3.21	7.89
	ASP(KR)	Chandrashekhar Azad	7,640	3.06
	INC	Chetna Pandey	2,880	1.15	26.95
	NOTA	None of the above	1,194	0.48	0.1
Majority			103,390	41.34	13.59
Turnout			250,067	53.8	2.82
	BJP hold		Swing	10.33

2017

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 Srivastava	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	6.66

2012

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