Amethi | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Amethi |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
Current MLA | Maharaji Prajapati |
Party | Samajwadi Party |
Elected year | 2022 |
Amethi is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, that covers the city of Amethi in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the five assembly constituencies which fall under Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency).
Currently, this seat is represented by samajwadi party politician Mahraji devi, who won the last Assembly election. [1]
Sanjay Singh has been a major player in the local politics. His father, Rananjay Singh, was elected from this seat. Later Sanjay Singh himself, his first wife Garima Singh, and his second wife Ameeta Singh have all been elected from the constituency.
Year | Winner | Party | |
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1951 | Kunwar Rananjay Singh | Independent | |
1957 | Rama Kant Singh [2] | Indian National Congress | |
1962 | Vaidya Baij Nath Singh [3] | ||
1967 | Ravindra Pratap Singh [4] | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
1969 [5] | Raja Rananjaya Singh | ||
1974 [6] | Indian National Congress | ||
1977 | Haricharan Yadav [7] | Janata Party | |
1980 [8] | Rajkumar Sanjaya Sinh | Indian National Congress | |
1985 [9] | Indian National Congress | ||
1989 [10] | Haricharan Yadav | ||
1991 [11] | Janata Party | ||
1993 | Jamuna Mishra [12] | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1996 | Ram Harsh Singh [13] | Indian National Congress | |
2002 [14] | Ameeta Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2007 [15] | Indian National Congress | ||
2012 | Gayatri Prasad Prajapati [16] | Samajwadi Party | |
2017 | Garima Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2022 | Maharaji Prajapati | Samajwadi Party | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SP | Maharaji Prajapati | 88,217 | 46.46 | ||
BJP | Sanjay Singh | 70,121 | 36.93 | ||
INC | Ashish Shukla | 14,080 | 7.42 | ||
BSP | Ragini | 10,202 | 5.37 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,206 | 0.64 | ||
Majority | 18,096 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
SP gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
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