| Akbarpur | |
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| Constituency No. 281 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Ambedkar Nagar |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 268,672 (2012) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Samajwadi Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Akbarpur Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Ambedkar Nagar district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Akbarpur Assembly constituency came into existence in 1955 as a result of the "Final Order DC (1953-1955)". The extant and serial number of this constituency was last defined in "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008". [1] [2] [3]
Akbarpur assembly constituency comprises Akbarpur, Sikandarpur, Rampur Sakarwari & Akbarpur MB of Akbarpur Tehsil. [3]
| Year | Member [4] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Balwan Singh | Independent | |
| 1962 | Praja Socialist Party | ||
| 1967 | Jai Ram Varma | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Priyadarshi Jetly | ||
| 1974 | |||
| 1977 | Hari Ram Verma | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Priya Darshi Jetly | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Akbar Husain Babar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1989 | |||
| 1991 | Pawan Pandey | Shiv Sena | |
| 1993 | Ram Achal Rajbhar | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | |||
| 2012 | Ram Murti Verma | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Ram Achal Rajbhar | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2022 | Samajwadi Party | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Ram Achal Rajbhar | 81,931 | 38.14 | ||
| BJP | Dharmraj Nishad | 69,595 | 32.39 | ||
| BSP | Chandra Prakash Verma | 53,398 | 24.85 | ||
| INC | Priyanka | 2,735 | 1.27 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,656 | 0.77 | ||
| Majority | 12,336 | 5.75 | |||
| Turnout | 214,843 | 64.6 | |||
| SP gain from BSP | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSP | Ram Achal Rajbhar | 72,325 | 35.4 | ||
| SP | Ram Murti Verma | 58,312 | 28.54 | ||
| BJP | Chandra Prakash Verma | 57,821 | 28.3 | ||
| NISHAD | Shriram | 6,550 | 3.21 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,719 | 0.85 | ||
| Majority | 14,013 | 6.86 | |||
| Turnout | 204,316 | 66.73 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Ram Murti Verma | 91,126 | 51.31 | − | |
| BSP | Sanjay Kumar | 64,840 | 36.51 | − | |
| INC | Amit Kumar | 7,305 | 4.11 | − | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | ||||
| Majority | 26,286 | 14.80 | − | ||
| Turnout | 177,613 | 64.77 | − | ||
| Registered electors | |||||
| SP hold | Swing | - | |||