Meerganj Assembly constituency

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Meerganj
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictBareilly
Total electors363,673 (2022)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Dr. D.C. Verma
PartyBhartiya Janta Party
Elected year2022

Meerganj Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Bareilly district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 2012 after the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed and the constituency was formed in 2008. The constituency is assigned identification number 119.[1][2][3][4]

Wards / Areas

Extant of Meerganj Assembly constituency is Meerganj Tehsil.[2] There are two blocks in this constituency, Fatehgarh west and Meerganj.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

# Term Name Party From To Days Comments Ref
01 16th Vidhan Sabha Sultan Baig Bahujan Samaj Party Mar-2012 Mar-2017 - - [5]
02 17th Vidhan Sabha D. C. Verma Bharatiya Janata Party Mar-2017 Mar-2022 - -
03 18th Vidhan Sabha D. C. Verma Bharatiya Janata Party Mar-2022 Incumbent - -

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Meerganj
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Dr D C Verma ( Dal Chand Lodhi) 116435 50.98
SP Sultan Beg 83955 36.76
BSP Kunwar Bhanu Pratap Singh 19189 8.4
INC Mohd Ilyas 5288 2.32
NOTA None of the Above 1162 .51
Majority
Turnout 228387 62.80
gain from Swing

2017

2017 General Elections: Meerganj
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Dr. D. C. Verma 1,08,789 51.74
BSP Sultan Baig 54,289 25.82
INC Narendra Pal Singh 36,938 17.57
MD Bhanu Pratap Singh 2,267 1.08
PECP Shakeel Ahmad 1,696 0.81
NOTA None of the Above 1,749 0.83
Majority 54,500 25.92
Turnout 2,10,276 64.74
BJP gain from BSP Swing
2012 General Elections: Meerganj
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BSP Sultan Baig 57,446 31.23 -
BJP D. C. Verma 49,525 26.93 -
SP Haji Zahid Husain Guddu 35,299 19.19 -
Remainder 11 candidates 41,649 22.64 -
Majority 7,921 4.31 -
Turnout 183,919 66.39 -
BSP hold Swing

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See also

References

  1. ^ "Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  3. ^ "All MLAs from Assembly constituency". Elections.in. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Member list". Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly website. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  5. ^ a b "2012 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 12 December 2015.

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