Jalalpur Assembly constituency

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Jalalpur
Constituency No. 280 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country India
Region North India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Ambedkar Nagar
LS constituency Ambedkar Nagar
Total electors4,07,064
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Samajwadi Party
Elected year2022

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

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Jalalpur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 280 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

ElectionMemberParty
2017 Ritesh Pandey Bahujan Samaj Party
2019 (By-election) Subhash Rai Samajwadi Party
2022 Rakesh Pandey Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Jalalpur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Rakesh Pandey 93,66836.18Increase2.svg11.78
BSP Dr. Rajesh Singh80,03830.91Decrease2.svg6.59
BJP Subhash Rai 71,23627.52Decrease2.svg4.58
INC Dr. Ragini Pathak1,7310.67
VIP Nitesh Kumar2,4100.93
Jan Adhikar Party Vinay Kumar Maurya1,6270.63
NOTA None of the Above1,3990.54
Majority13,630
Turnout
SP hold Swing

2019 Bypoll

UP By-election, 2019: Jalalpur [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Subhash Rai 72589
BSP Dr. Chhaya Verma71813
BJP Dr. Rajesh Singh63390
INC Sunil Mishra2521
NOTANone of the above
Majority776
Turnout 2,29,80958.41
SP gain from BSP Swing

2017

Ritesh Pandey won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Rajesh Singh by a margin of 13,030 votes. [2]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Jalalpur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BSP Ritesh Pandey 9030937.75%
BJP Dr. Rajesh Singh7727932.30%
SP Shankhilal Majhi5877324.56%
NOTA None of the Above15310.64%
Majority
Turnout 24078762.66%
BSP gain from Swing

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References

  1. Zee News (25 October 2019). "By-election results 2019: List of winners in 51 Assembly and Satara, Samastipur". Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  2. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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