Gauriganj | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Amethi |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
Current MLA | Rakesh Pratap Singh |
Party | Samajwadi Party |
Elected year | 2022 |
Gauriganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gauriganj in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[ citation needed ]
Gauriganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency) Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 185 amongst 403 constituencies.[ citation needed ]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SP | Rakesh Pratap Singh | 79,040 | 38.96 | ||
BJP | Chandraprakash Mishra Matiyari | 72,077 | 35.53 | ||
INC | Fateh Bahadur | 28,964 | 14.28 | ||
BSP | Ramlakhan | 9,872 | 4.87 | ||
Jansatta Dal (L) | Chaudhary Nafees Ahamad | 7,056 | 3.48 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,920 | 0.95 | ||
Majority | 6,963 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
SP hold | Swing | ||||
Samajwadi Party candidate Rakesh Pratap Singh won in 2017 defeating Indian National Congress candidate Mohammad Nayem by a margin of 26,419 votes. [1] On 31 October 2021, Singh resigned from the 17th Uttar Pradesh Assembly citing "non-fulfilment of promises" by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government. [2]
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