Gaura Assembly constituency

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Gaura
Constituency No. 301 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region North India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Gonda
Established2012
Total electors3,20,821
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2022

Gaura is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, covering the city of Gaura and other parts of Mankapur tehsil in Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Gaura is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gonda Lok Sabha constituency. [1] Since 2012, this assembly constituency is numbered 301 amongst the 403 constituencies and the first election was held in this constituency was in 2012 after dissolving the Saddulahnagar Assembly constituency. As of 2022, it is represented by Prabhat Kumar Verma of the Bharatiya Janata Party,

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Members of the Legislative Assembly

ElectionNameParty
Before 2012,the constituency was known as the Saddullahnagar Nagar Assembly Constituency Dominated by stalwart of Gonda's Politics Ram Pratap Singh who was elected as the MLA 4 Times Straight in a row since 1991 & his late Dashrath Singh who won the constituency 3 Times from 1974
2012 Kunwar Anand Singh [2] Samajwadi Party
2017 [3] Prabhat Kumar Verma Bharatiya Janata Party
2022 [4]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gaura [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Prabhat Kumar Verma 73,545 42.62 +0.83
SP Sanjay Kumar Vidyarthi50,57129.31+4.74
INC Ram Pratap Singh (4 Term MLA) Rebel SP Leader31,58918.31+16.73
BSP Nigar Fatma11,0166.38−15.92
NOTA None of the above 1,3610.79−0.04
Majority 22,97413.31−3.91
Turnout 172,55753.79−1.81
BJP hold Swing


2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gaura [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Prabhat Kumar Verma 72,455 41.79
SP Ram Pratap Singh42,60024.57
BSP Abdul Kalam38,66722.3
Independent Vikram Singh8,0134.62
INC Tarunendra Chandra Patel2,7461.58
NOTA None of the above 1,4350.83
Majority 29,85517.22
Turnout 173,38055.6


References

  1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. "State Election, 2012 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  3. 1 2 "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  4. 1 2 "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 March 2023.

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