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Vishwanathganj | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Pratapgarh |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
Current MLA | Rakesh Kumar Verma |
Party | Apna Dal (Sonelal) |
Elected year | 2017 |
Vishwanathganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Vishwanathganj in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Vishwanathganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 247 amongst 403 constituencies.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AAP | Pankaj Pal [1] | ||||
INC | Prashant Singh | 1,933 | |||
SP | Saurabh Singh | 38,777 | |||
Independent | Sanjay Pandey | 23,000 | |||
Janadip | Mohd Ashfaq | 20,271 | |||
AD(S) | Jeet Lal | 86,829 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
gain from | Swing | ||||
Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Rakesh Kumar Verma won in2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating INC candidate Sanjay Pandey by a margin of 23,358 votes. [2]
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