Gauriganj Assembly constituency

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Gauriganj
Constituency No. 185 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region North India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Amethi
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Independent (BJP supported)
Elected year2022

Gauriganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gauriganj in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. [1]

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Gauriganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 185 amongst 403 constituencies. [1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

ElectionNameParty
2017 Rakesh Pratap Singh Samajwadi Party
2022 [2] [a]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gauriganj [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Rakesh Pratap Singh 79,040 38.96 +0.21
BJP Chandraprakash Mishra Matiyari72,07735.53+23.77
INC Fateh Bahadur28,96414.28−11.33
BSP Ramlakhan9,8724.87−11.97
Jansatta Dal (L) Chaudhary Nafees Ahamad7,0563.48
NOTA None of the above 1,9200.95+0.37
Majority 6,9633.43−9.71
Turnout 202,85657.94−1.94
SP hold Swing


2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Rakesh Pratap Singh won in 2017 defeating Indian National Congress candidate Mohammad Nayem by a margin of 26,419 votes. [4] On 31 October 2021, Singh resigned from the 17th Uttar Pradesh Assembly citing "non-fulfilment of promises" by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government. [5]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gauriganj [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Rakesh Pratap Singh 77,915 38.75
INC Mohammad Nayeem51,49625.61
BSP Vijay Kishor33,84816.84
BJP Uma Shankar Pandey23,64211.76
RLD Ravindra Kumar1,8760.93
NOTA None of the above 1,1550.58
Majority 26,41913.14
Turnout 201,04859.88


References

  1. 1 2 "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  3. ↑ https://www.news18.com/india/samajwadi-party-expelled-mlas-declared-independents-may-join-bjp-9432023.html
  4. 1 2 "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  5. ↑ PTI (31 October 2021). "SP MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh resigns from U.P. Assembly alleging non-fulfilment of promises by BJP government". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 November 2021.

Notes

  1. ↑ Expelled from Samajwadi Party in 2024. [3]

26°13′N81°41′E / 26.21°N 81.68°E / 26.21; 81.68

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