Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

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Chitrakoot
Constituency No. 236 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region North India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Chitrakoot
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Samajwadi Party
Elected year2022

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

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Chitrakoot is one of five assembly constituencies in the Banda Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 236 amongst 403 constituencies.

This seat belongs to Samajwadi party candidate Anil Pradhan who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating BJP candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay by a margin of around 21,000 votes.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

# Term NamePartyFromToDaysCommentsRef
1 16th Vidhan Sabha Veer Singh Samajwadi Party March 2012March 20171,829- [1]
2 17th Vidhan Sabha Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay Bharatiya Janata Party March 2017March 20222977 [2]
3 18th Vidhan Sabha Anil Pradhan Samajwadi Party March 2022Incumbent

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chitrakoot [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Anil Pradhan 104,771 43.23 Increase2.svg14.55
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay83,89534.62Decrease2.svg6.23
BSP Pushpendra Singh38,71115.97Decrease2.svg5.63
Jan Adhikar Party Avinash Chandra Tripathi2,4201.0
NOTA None of the above 3,2901.36Decrease2.svg0.24
Majority 20,8768.61Decrease2.svg3.56
Turnout 242,35764.61Increase2.svg2.59
SP gain from BJP Swing


2017

2017 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 90,366 40.85
SP Veer Singh Patel 63,43028.68
BSP Jagdish Prasad Gautam47,78021.6
CPI Amit Yadav3,3781.53
NISHAD Ugrasen2,6791.21
Jan Adhikar Manch Chhedilal2,5431.15
NOTA None of the above 3,5291.6
Majority 26,93612.17
Turnout 221,19962.02
BJP gain from SP Swing Increase2.svg5.74


2012

2012 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Veer Singh Patel 65,26735.78Steady2.svg
BSP Ram Sevak49,13126.93Steady2.svg
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 32,50717.82Steady2.svg
INC Pushpendra Singh18,92110.37Steady2.svg
CPI Amit Yadav4,2912.35Steady2.svg
Remainder 8 candidates12,3086.74Steady2.svg
Majority 16,1368.85Steady2.svg
Turnout 1,82,42560.55Steady2.svg
SP win (new seat)


References

  1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Chitrakoot Assembly constituency Election Result". resultuniversity.com. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  3. "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India . 25 May 2022.
  4. "Rampur Maniharan Election Results 2017, Winner and Runner-up, Candidate list". elections.in. Retrieved 5 November 2018.

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