Shahganj Assembly constituency

Shahganj
Constituency No. 365 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Jaunpur
Total electors	4,07,439
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ramesh Singh
Party	NISHAD
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2022

Shahganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Shahganj in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. ^[1]

Shahganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 365 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member [2]	Party
1952	Lakshmi Shankar Yadav		Indian National Congress
	Babu Nandan
1957	Kunwar Sripal		Independent
	Mata Prasad		Indian National Congress
1962	Lakshmi Shankar Yadav
1967	Mata Prasad
1969
1974
1977	Chhotey Lal		Janata Party
1980	Pahlwan		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Deep Chand Sonkar		Lokdal
1989			Janata Dal
1991	Ram Paras Rajak		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Ram Dawar		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Bankey Lal Sonkar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Jagdish Sonkar		Samajwadi Party
2007
2012	Shailendra Yadav Lalai
2017
2022	Ramesh Singh		NISHAD Party

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Shahganj ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NISHAD	Ramesh Singh	87,233	36.21	+26.2
	SP	Shailendra Yadav Lalai	86,514	35.91	+4.26
	BSP	Indar Dev	48,957	20.32	−3.57
	AIMIM	Nayab Ahmad Khan	8,128	3.37
	VIP	Ramanuj	2,551	1.06
	NOTA	None of the above	1,643	0.68	−0.01
Majority			719	0.3	−3.97
Turnout			240,920	59.13	−1.82
	NISHAD gain from SP		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Shailendra Yadav Lalai, won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party candidate Rana Ajeet Pratap Singh by a margin of 9,162 votes. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Shahgan ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Shailendra Yadav Lalai	67,818	31.65
	SBSP	Rana Ajeet Pratap Singh	58,656	27.38
	BSP	Om Prakash(O.P. Singh)	51,176	23.89
	NISHAD	Dr. Suryabhan Yadav	21,446	10.01
	RLD	Dinesh Yadav Alias Dinesh Kant	6,462	3.02
	NOTA	None of the above	1,473	0.69
Majority			9,162	4.27
Turnout			214,243	60.95

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
2. "ShahganjElection and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 March 2023.
4. "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 26 March 2022.
5. "State Election, 2007 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 20 April 2023.
6. "State Election, 2012 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 20 April 2023.

External links

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

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