Gauriganj Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gauriganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gauriganj in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1]
Gauriganj | |
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Constituency No. 185 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | North India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Amethi |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Samajwadi Party |
Elected year | 2022 |
Gauriganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 185 amongst 403 constituencies.[1]
Election | Name | Party | |
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2017 | Rakesh Pratap Singh | Samajwadi Party | |
2022[2] | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SP | Rakesh Pratap Singh | 79,040 | 38.96 | ||
BJP | Chandraprakash Mishra Matiyari | 72,077 | 35.53 | ||
INC | Fateh Bahadur | 28,964 | 14.28 | ||
BSP | Ramlakhan | 9,872 | 4.87 | ||
Jansatta Dal (L) | Chaudhary Nafees Ahamad | 7,056 | 3.48 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,920 | 0.95 | ||
Majority | 6,963 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
SP hold | Swing |
Samajwadi Party candidate Rakesh Pratap Singh won in 2017 defeating Indian National Congress candidate Mohammad Nayem by a margin of 26,419 votes.[3] On 31 October 2021, Singh resigned from the 17th Uttar Pradesh Assembly citing "non-fulfilment of promises" by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government.[4]
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