Vishwanathganj Assembly constituency

Vishwanathganj
Constituency No. 247 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Pratapgarh
Total electors	3,99,623
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jeet Lal Patel
Party	Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Elected year	2022

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

Vishwanathganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 247 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member [2]	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Raja Ram		Samajwadi Party
2014^	Rakesh Kumar Verma		Apna Dal
2017			Apna Dal (Soneylal)
2022	Jeet Lal Patel

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AD(S)	Jeet Lal Patel	86,829
	SP	Saurabh Singh	38,777
	Independent	Sanjay Pandey	22,962
	Jan Adhikar Party	Mohd Ashfaq	20,271
	INC	Prashant Singh	1,933
	AAP	Pankaj Pal [4]	1,484
Majority			48,052
Turnout
	AD(S) hold		Swing

2017

Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Rakesh Kumar Verma won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating INC candidate Sanjay Pandey by a margin of 23,358 votes. ^{[5] [6]}

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
2. "Vishwanathganj Election 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. Bhandari, Shashwat (16 January 2022). "AAP announces 150 candidates for UP elections 2022 | Check complete list". indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
5. "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 26 March 2022.
6. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2012 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH" (PDF). Eci.nic.in.

External links

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

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