Azamgarh Assembly constituency

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Azamgarh is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Azamgarh in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Azamgarh
Constituency No. 347 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region North India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Azamgarh
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Durga Prasad Yadav
Party Samajwadi Party
Elected year2022

Azamgarh is one of the 5 assembly constituencies in the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 347 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

#TermMember of Legislative AssemblyPartyFromToDaysComment
01 2nd Vidhan Sabha Bisram Praja Socialist Party April 1957March 19621,800
02 3rd Vidhan Sabha Bhima PrasadMarch 1962March 19671,828
03 4th Vidhan Sabha Samyukta Socialist Party March 1967April 1968402 [1]
04 5th Vidhan Sabha February 1969March 19741,832 [2]
05 6th Vidhan Sabha Bisram Bharatiya Kranti Dal March 1974April 19771,153 [3]
06 7th Vidhan Sabha Bhima Prasad Indian National Congress June 1977February 1980969 [4]
07 8th Vidhan Sabha Ram Kunwar Singh Indian National Congress (Indira) June 1980March 19851,735 [5]
08 9th Vidhan Sabha Durga Prasad Yadav Independent March 1985November 19891,725 [6]
09 10th Vidhan Sabha Janata Dal December 1989April 1991488 [7]
10 11th Vidhan Sabha June 1991December 1992533 [8]
11 12th Vidhan Sabha Raj Bali Yadav Bahujan Samaj Party December 1993October 1995693 [9]
12 13th Vidhan Sabha Durga Prasad Yadav Samajwadi Party October 1996March 20021,967 [10]
13 14th Vidhan Sabha February 2002May 20071,902 [11]
14 15th Vidhan Sabha May 2007March 20121,736 [12]
15 16th Vidhan Sabha March 2012March 20171,829 [13]
16 17th Vidhan Sabha March 201720222927 [14]
17 18th Vidhan Sabha March 2022Incumbent [15]

Election results


2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Azamgarh [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Durga Prasad Yadav 100,813 42.66 +1.49
BJP Akhilesh Mishra84,77735.87+6.97
BSP Sushil Kumar Singh39,28116.62−10.58
AIMIM Kamar Kamal5,5322.34
INC Praveen Kumar Singh2,1750.92
NOTA None of the above 1,4700.62−0.38
Majority16,0366.79−5.48
Turnout 236,33059.64+2.59
SP hold Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Durga Prasad Yadav won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Akhilesh Mishra by a margin of 26,262 votes. [17]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Azamgarh [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Durga Prasad Yadav 88,087 41.17
BJP Akhilesh Mishra61,82528.9
BSP Bhupendra58,18527.2
NOTA None of the above 2,1341.0
Majority26,26212.27
Turnout 213,94857.05
SP hold Swing

References

  1. "1967 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  2. "1969 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  3. "1974 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. "1977 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  5. "1980 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  6. "1985 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  7. "1989 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  8. "1991 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  9. "1993 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  10. "1996 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  11. "2002 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  12. "2007 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  13. "2012 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  14. 1 2 "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  15. "Election Commission of India".
  16. "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 25 May 2022.
  17. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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