Azamgarh Assembly constituency

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

Azamgarh
Constituency No. 347 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Azamgarh
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Durga Prasad Yadav
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

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

Year	Member	Party
1957	Bisram		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Bhima Prasad
1967			Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1974	Bisram		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977	Bhima Prasad		Indian National Congress
1980	Ram Kunwar Singh		Indian National Congress
1985	Durga Prasad Yadav		Independent politician
1989			Janata Dal
1991
1993	Raj Bali Yadav		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Durga Prasad Yadav		Samajwadi Party
2002
2007
2012
2017
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Azamgarh ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Durga Prasad Yadav	100,813	42.66	+1.49
	BJP	Akhilesh Mishra	84,777	35.87	+6.97
	BSP	Sushil Kumar Singh	39,281	16.62	−10.58
	AIMIM	Kamar Kamal	5,532	2.34
	INC	Praveen Kumar Singh	2,175	0.92
	NOTA	None of the above	1,470	0.62	−0.39
Majority			16,036	6.79	−5.48
Turnout			236,330	59.64	+2.59
	SP hold		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Durga Prasad Yadav won in the last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Akhilesh Mishra by a margin of 26,262 votes. ^[2]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Azamgarh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Durga Prasad Yadav	88,087	41.17
	BJP	Akhilesh Mishra	61,825	28.9
	BSP	Bhupendra	58,185	27.2
	NOTA	None of the above	2,134	1.01
Majority			26,262	12.27
Turnout			213,948	57.05
	SP hold		Swing

References

1. "Election Commission of India".
2. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

External links

• Official Site of Legislature in Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Government website
• UP Assembly
• "Election results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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