Machhlishahr Assembly constituency

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Machhlishahr
Constituency No. 369 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictJaunpur
Total electors4,02,078
ReservationSC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartySamajwadi Party
Elected year2022

Machhlishahr is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Machhlishahr in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Machhlishahr is one of five assembly constituencies in the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 369 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

# Term Member of Legislative Assembly Party From To Days Comment
01 2nd Vidhan Sabha Mohd Rauf Jafri Indian National Congress April 1957 March 1962 1,800
02 3rd Vidhan Sabha Kesari Prasad Praja Socialist Party March 1962 March 1967 1,828
03 4th Vidhan Sabha Mohd Rauf Jafri Indian National Congress March 1967 April 1968 402
04 5th Vidhan Sabha Moti Lal Bharatiya Kranti Dal February 1969 March 1974 1,832
05 6th Vidhan Sabha Agha Zaidi Indian National Congress March 1974 April 1977 1,153
06 7th Vidhan Sabha Arun Kumar June 1977 February 1980 969
07 08th Vidhan Sabha Keshri Prasad Indian National Congress (Indira) June 1980 March 1985 1,735
08 9th Vidhan Sabha Indian National Congress March 1985 November 1989 1,725
09 10th Vidhan Sabha Jwala Prasad Yadav Janata Dal December 1989 April 1991 488 [1]
10 11th Vidhan Sabha June 1991 December 1992 533
11 12th Vidhan Sabha December 1993 October 1995 693
12 13th Vidhan Sabha Samajwadi Party October 1996 March 2002 1,967 [1]
13 14th Vidhan Sabha Vinod Kumar Singh Bahujan Samaj Party February 2002 May 2007 1,902
14 15th Vidhan Sabha Subhash Pandey May 2007 March 2012 1,762 [1]
15 16th Vidhan Sabha Jagdish Sonkar Samajwadi Party March 2012 March 2017 1,829 [1]
16 17th Vidhan Sabha March 2017 March 2022 1,817 [1]
17 18th Vidhan Sabha Ragini Sonkar March 2022 Incumbent 776 [2]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Machhlishahr
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Dr. Ragini Sonkar [3] 91,659 41.99 Increase7.26
BJP Mihilal Gautam 83,175 38.10 Increase5.37
BSP Vijay Kumar 35,059 16.06 Decrease9.28
INC Mala Devi Sonkar 2,178 1.00
NOTA (None of the Above) + Rest of the candidates ~6,000 3.00
Majority 8,484
Turnout
SP hold Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Jagdish Sonkar won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anita Rawat by a margin of 4,179 votes.[1]

2017 General Elections: Machhlishahr[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Jagdish Sonkar 72,368 35.10 -
BJP Anita Rawat 68,189 33.07 -
BSP Sushila Saroj 52,796 25.61 -
NISHAD Ram Sevak 4,484 2.17 -
NOTA None of the Above 2,165 1.05
Remainder 10 candidates 8,342 4 -
Majority 4,179 2.01 -
Turnout 2,08,344 57.06 -
SP hold Swing

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Uttar Pradesh-Machhlishahr". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Samajwadi party UP list, 10 February 2022". twitter. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2018.

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