Allahabad North Assembly constituency

Allahabad North
Constituency No. 262 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Prayagraj
Total electors	4,13,478 (2018)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Harshvardhan Bajpai
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	Anugrah Narayan Singh

Allahabad North is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the city of Prayagraj of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Allahabad North is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 262 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Harshvardhan Bajpai who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Anugrah Narayan Singh by a margin of 35,025 votes. ^[1]

Overview

The constituency has a preponderance of voters belonging to Brahmin and Kayastha , Yadav Baniya stand second in population in this constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member [2]	Party
1957	Kailash Narain Gupta		Indian National Congress
1962	Rajendra Kumari Bajpai
1967
1969
1974
1977	Baba Ram Adhar Yadav		Janata Party
1980	Ashok Kumar Bajpai		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Anugrah Narayan Singh		Lokdal
1989			Janata Dal
1991	Narendra Kumar Singh Gaur		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996
2002
2007	Anugrah Narayan Singh		Indian National Congress
2012
2017	Harshvardhan Bajpai		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Allahabad North ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Harshvardhan Bajpai	96,890	55.07	3.59
	SP	Sandeep Yadav	42,007	23.88
	INC	Anugrah Narayan Singh	23,571	13.4	17.87
	BSP	Sanjay Goswami	9,614	5.46	8.04
	NOTA	None of the above	919	0.52	0.14
Majority			54,883	31.19	10.98
Turnout			175,941	39.77	2.13
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Harshvardhan Bajpai	89,191	51.48
	INC	Anugrah Narayan Singh	54,166	31.27
	BSP	Amit Srivastava	23,388	13.5
	NOTA	None of the above	659	0.38
Majority			35,025	20.21
Turnout			173,242	41.9
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

References

1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
2. "Allahabad North Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
3. "2022 Election Results". Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

External links

• "Election results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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