Machhlishahr Assembly constituency

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

Year Member[1] Party
1957 Mohammed Rauf Jafri Indian National Congress
1962 Kesari Prasad Praja Socialist Party
1967 Mohammed Rauf Jafri Indian National Congress
1969 Moti Lal Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1974 Agha Zaidi Indian National Congress
1977 Arun Kumar
1980 Keshri Prasad Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1989 Jwala Prasad Yadav Janata Dal
1991
1993
1996 Samajwadi Party
2002 Vinod Kumar Singh Bahujan Samaj Party
2007 Subhash Pandey
2012 Jagdish Sonkar Samajwadi Party
2017
2022 Ragini Sonkar

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Machhlishahr[2]
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.[4]

2017 General Elections: Machhlishahr[5]
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. ^ "Machhlishahr Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  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. ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2018.

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