Colonelganj Assembly constituency

Colonelganj
Constituency No. 298 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gonda
Total electors	3,30,403
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ajay Kumar Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

Colonelganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the town of Colonelganj in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Colonelganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Kaiserganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 298 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1967	Kunwar Madan Mohan Singh		Independent politician
1969	Bhagelu Singh		Samyukta Socialist Party
1974	Raghuraj Singh		Indian National Congress
1977	Triveni Singh		Janata Party
1980	Umeshwar Pratap Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya		Independent politician
1991			Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996
2002	Yogesh Pratap Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007	Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya		Indian National Congress
2008^	Kunwari Brij Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Yogesh Pratap Singh		Samajwadi Party
2017	Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Ajay Kumar Singh

^denotes by-poll

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Singh	108,109	55.8
	SP	Yogesh Pratap Singh	72,637	37.49
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,399	1.24
Majority
Turnout			193,761	58.64
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya won in the Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Yogesh Pratap Singh by a margin of 28,405 votes. ^[2]

References

1. "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 March 2023.
2. "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 26 March 2022.

External links

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

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