Chitrakoot
Constituency No. 236 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Chitrakoot
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Anil Pradhan
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

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

Chitrakoot is one of five assembly constituencies in the Banda Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 236 amongst 403 constituencies.

This seat belonged to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Veer Singh by a margin of 26,936 votes.^[1]

2017 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	90,366	41.52	23.70
	SP	Veer Singh Patel	63,430	29.14	6.64
	BSP	Jagdish Prasad Gautam	47,780	21.95	4.98
	CPI	Amit Yadav	3,378	1.55	0.80
	NISHAD	Ugrasen	2,679	1.23
	JAM	Chhedilal	2,543	1.17
	ABHM	Chandra Kishor Dwivedi	1,746	0.80
	RLD	Ashish Singh	1,237	0.57
	Independent	Shiva Kant Shastri	1,186	0.54
	BMP	Durgesh	1,147	0.53
	Independent	Satynarayan	1,136	0.52
	SWAJANPA	Chandan Singh	1,042	0.48
	None of the Above	None of the Above	3,528	1.62	New
Majority			26,936	12.38	3.53
Turnout			2,21,230	62.03	1.48
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	5.74

2012 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Veer Singh Patel	65,267	35.78
	BSP	Ram Sevak	49,131	26.93
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	32,507	17.82
	INC	Pushpendra Singh	18,921	10.37
	CPI	Amit Yadav	4,291	2.35
		Remainder 8 candidates	12,308	6.74
Majority			16,136	8.85
Turnout			1,82,425	60.55
	SP win (new seat)

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

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