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{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency
| name = Gorakhpur Urban
| map =
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| district = [[Gorakhpur district|Gorakhpur]]
| electorate =
| year = 2017
| reserved = None
| mla = [[Radha Mohan Das Agarwal]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janta Party]]
|parl_name=[[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
|SuccessfulParty=[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] (7 times)
}}

'''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-elections-2017/uttar-pradesh-elections-2017-gorakhpur-urban-constituency-bjps-ram-mohan-das-takes-on-congress-rana-rahul-singh-all-you-need-to-know/560448/lite/|title=Gorakhpur Urban constituency; BJP’s Radha Mohan Das takes on Congress’ Rana Rahul Singh|publisher=www.financialexpress.com|access-date=7 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/amp/news/politics/gorakhpur-urban-election-results-2017-radha-mohan-das-agrawal-of-bjp-leading-1358749.html|title=Gorakhpur Urban Election Results 2017: Radha Mohan Das Agrawal of BJP Leading|publisher=News18|access-date=7 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://khabar.ndtv.com/elections/uttar-pradesh/gorakhpur-urban-mla-results|title=गोरखपुर शहरी विधानसभा चुनाव 2018 परिणाम, उत्तर प्रदेश|publisher=NDTV Khabar|access-date=7 November 2018}}</ref>

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.

Currently this seat belongs to [[Bharatiya Janta Party]] candidate '''[[Radha Mohan Das Agarwal]]''' who won in last Assembly election of [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections]] defeating [[Indian National Congress]] candidate '''Rana Rahul Singh''' by a margin of 60,730 votes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/gorakhpur-urban.html|title=Assembly result 2017|website=Elections.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Member
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|| 1951 ||rowspan="2" |Istafa Hussain
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" | || rowspan="3" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|| 1957
|-
|| 1962 || Niyamatullah Ansari
|-
| 1967
| Udai Pratap Dubey
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}"|
|[[Bharatiya Jan Sangh]]
|-
|| 1969 || Ram Lal Bhai
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|| 1974 || rowspan="2" | Awadhesh Kumar Srivastava
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Jan Sangh]]
|-
|| 1977
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|[[Janata Party]]
|-
|| 1980 ||rowspan="2"| [[Sunil Shastri]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]
|-
|| 1985
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" | ||[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|| 1989 ||rowspan="4"| [[Shiv Pratap Shukla]]
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" | || rowspan="4" |[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|| 1991
|-
|| 1993
|-
|| 1996
|-
|| 2002 || rowspan="4" |[[Radha Mohan Das Agarwal]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha}}" |
|[[Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha]]
|-
|| 2007
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|rowspan="3"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|| 2012
|-
|| 2017
|-
|}

==Election results==
{{Election box begin | title=[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Gorakhpur|Gorakhpur Urban]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Yogi Adityanath]]
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate =
|party = Samajwadi Party
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate =
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate =
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = None of the Above
|party = None of the above
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{{Election box majority|
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Gorakhpur|Gorakhpur Urban]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 1,22,221
|percentage = 55.85
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Rana Rahul Singh
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 61,491
|percentage = 28.10
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Janardan Chaudhary
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|votes = 24,297
|percentage = 11.10
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Arun Kumar Srivastava
|party = Peace Party of India
|votes = 2,252
|percentage = 1.03
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Vinod Kumar Rai
|party = Rashtriya Lok Dal
|votes = 946
|percentage = 0.43
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = None of the Above
|party = None of the above
|votes = 839
|percentage = 0.38
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 60,730
|percentage = 27.75
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 2,19,439
|percentage = 51.12
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=[[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Gorakhpur|Gorakhpur Urban]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 81,148
|percentage = 49.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Raj Kumari Devi
|party = Samajwadi Party
|votes = 33,694
|percentage = 20.42
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Divesh Chandra Srivastava
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|votes = 23,811
|percentage = 14.43
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Narendra Mani Tripathi
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 11,171
|percentage = 6.77
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Dr. Vijay Kumar
|party = Peace Party of India
|votes = 2,187
|percentage = 1.33
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 47,454
|percentage = 28.77
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,64,973
|percentage = 46.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh}}

{{coord missing|Uttar Pradesh}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Gorakhpur]]
[[Category:Politics of Gorakhpur district]]

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