Allahabad South Assembly constituency

Allahabad South
Constituency No. 263 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Prayagraj
LS constituency	Allahabad
Total electors	399,776(2019)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nand Gopal Gupta
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022

Allahabad South is one of five assembly constituencies in the Allahabad Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 263 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Raish Chandra Shukla by a margin of 26,182 votes.

Overview

The constituency has a preponderance of voters belonging to Kayastha, Bhrahmin and Baniya in population in this constituency.

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Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member [2]	Party
1957	Kalyan Chandra Mohiley		Praja Socialist Party
1962
1967			Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Ram Gopal Sand		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1974	Satya Prakash Malaviya		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977			Janata Party
1980	Satish Chandra Jaiswal		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Keshari Nath Tripathi		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996
2002
2007	Nand Gopal Gupta		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Haji Parvej Ahmad		Samajwadi Party
2017	Nand Gopal Gupta		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Prayagraj South ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nand Gopal Gupta	97,864	54.14	1.61
	SP	Raish Chandra Shukla	71,682	39.66	3.28
	BSP	Devendra Mishra	4,208	2.33	4.54
	INC	Alpana Nishad	2,098	1.16
	NOTA	None of the above	831	0.46	0.08
Majority			26,182	14.48	1.67
Turnout			180,745	44.27	0.89
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Prayagraj South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nand Gopal Gupta	93,011	52.53
	SP	Haji Parvej Ahmad	64,424	36.38
	BSP	Masooq Khan	12,162	6.87
	NOTA	None of the above	665	0.38
Majority			28,587	16.15
Turnout			177,063	45.16
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh state assembly election: Prayagraj South ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Haji Parvej Ahmad	43,040	29.44
	BSP	Nand Gopal Gupta	42,626	29.16
	BJP	Keshari Nath Tripathi	33,399	22.85
	INC	Ch. Jitendra Nath Singh	19,121	13.08
	PECP	Mohd. Julfikar Khan	4,092	2.80
Majority			414	0.28
Turnout			1,46,174	45.05
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

References

1. "Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election result: Prayagraj South". ECI. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
2. "Allahabad South Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
3. "Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election result: Prayagraj South". ECI. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
4. "2012 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

External links

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

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