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

## Election results
### 2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Yogi Adityanath | 165,499 | 66.18 | 10.33 |
| | SP | Kalyan Chaudhary | 62,109 | 24.84 | New |
| | BSP | Khwaja Shamsuddin | 8,023 | 3.21 | 7.90 |
| | ASP(KR) | Chandrashekhar Azad | 2640 | 1.20 | New |
| | INC | Chetna Pandey | 2,880 | 1.15 | 26.95 |
| | RRP | Ram Davan Maurya | 490 | 0.2 | New |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 1,194 | 0.48 | 0.10 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,03,390 | 41.34 | 13.59 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 53.8 | 2.68 |
| | BSP hold | BSP hold | Swing | 10.33 | |

### 2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Radha Mohan Das Agarwal | 122,221 | 55.85 | 6.66 |
| | INC | Rana Rahul Singh | 61,491 | 28.10 | 21.33 |
| | BSP | Janardan Chaudhary | 24,297 | 11.10 | 3.33 |
| | PECP | Arun Kumar Srivastava | 2,252 | 1.03 | 0.3 |
| | RLD | Vinod Kumar Rai | 946 | 0.43 | New |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 839 | 0.38 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 60,730 | 27.75 | 1.02 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,19,439 | 51.12 | 4.93 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | 6.66 | |

### 2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gorakhpur Urban :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 47,454 | 28.77 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,64,973 | 46.19 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |