Sarojini Nagar Assembly constituency

Sarojini Nagar
Constituency No. 170 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Lucknow
Lok Sabha constituency	Mohanlalganj
Total electors	5,67,252
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rajeshwar Singh
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2022

Sarojini Nagar is one of the 403 assembly constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the area of Sarojini Nagar in the Lucknow district. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency.

Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 170 amongst 403 constituencies.

In 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rajeshwar Singh won the elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Abhishek Mishra by the margin of 56,186 votes. He is an ex-ED Joint Director IPS officer who has taken VRS from the service to contest the elections. ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member [2]	Party
1967	Vijay Kumar Tripathi		Indian National Congress
1969	Chandra Bhanu Gupta
1974	Vijay Kumar Tripathi
1977	Chheda Singh Chauhan		Janata Party
1980	Vijay Kumar Tripathi		Indian National Congress
1985	Sharda Pratap Shukla		Independent
1989			Janata Dal
1991	Vijay Kumar Tripathi		Indian National Congress
1993	Shyam Kishore Yadav		Samajwadi Party
1996
2002	Mohammad Irshad Khan		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007
2012	Sharda Pratap Shukla		Samajwadi Party
2017	Swati Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Rajeshwar Singh

Election results

2022 ^[3]

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajeshwar Singh	1,60,626	49.07	+11.76
	SP	Abhishek Mishra	1,04,440	31.9	+6.35
	BSP	Mohd. Jaleesh Khan	33,356	10.19	−14.49
	INC	Rudra Daman Singh	19,711	6.02	−
	AAP	Rohit Srivastav [4]	2,427	0.74	−
	NOTA	NOTA	1,822	0.56	−0.10
Majority			56,186	17.17	+5.41
Turnout			3,27,373
	BJP hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}

2017 ^[5]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Swati Singh	1,08,506	37.31
	SP	Anurag Yadav	74,327	25.55
	BSP	Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari)	71,791	24.68
	IND.	Rudra Daman Singh	20,607	7.08
	RLD	Sharda Pratap Shukla	4,489	1.54
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,926	0.66
Majority			34,179	11.76
Turnout			2,90,894	58.35
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Sharda Pratap Shukla	67,601	28.88
	BSP	Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari)	59,236	25.30
	RSBP	Rudra Daman Singh	41,386	17.68
	BJP	Virendra Kumar Tiwari	29,510	12.61
	INC	Gaurav Choudhry	22,003	9.40
	AD	Sher Bahadur Singh (Shera)	2,581	1.10
Majority			8,365	3.58
Turnout			2,34,090	59.17
	SP gain from Bahujan Samaj party (mayawati)		Swing

2007

2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Mohammad Irshad Khan	65,736	36.99
	SP	Shyam Kishore Yadav	60,312	33.93
	BJP	Virendra Kumar Tiwari	21,364	12.02
	INC	Ajay Kumar Tripathi	10,487	5.90
	JM	Lalloo Yadav	3,434	1.93
	RSBP	Bachan Singh Yadav	1,952	1.10
Majority			5,424	3.06
Turnout			1,77,723	43.56
	BSP hold		Swing

References

1. Pandey, Munish Chandra (11 March 2022). "BJP MLA Rajeshwar Singh: How an ED officer made the leap from law enforcement to lawmaker". India Today. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
2. "Sarojini Nagar Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. Hindustan Times (10 March 2022). "UP assembly election results 2022: Check full list of winners". Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
4. Bhandari, Shashwat (16 January 2022). "AAP announces 150 candidates for UP elections 2022 | Check complete list". indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
5. India Today (11 March 2017). "Uttar Pradesh election results 2017: Full list of constituency-wise winners". Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.

External links

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

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