Allahabad West Assembly constituency

Allahabad West is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the Prayagraj city of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Allahabad West
Constituency No. 261 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Prayagraj
Total electors	4,18,849 (2018)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sidharth Nath Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

Allahabad West is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 261 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat is represented by Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Siddharth Nath Singh who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Richa Singh by a margin of 29,873 votes.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1967	Chaudhary Naunihal Singh		Indian National Congress
1969	Habib Ahmad		Independent
1974	Tirath Ram Kohli		Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1977	Habib Ahmad		Janata Party
1979^	Chaudhary Naunihal Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1980
1985	Gopal Das Yadav		Lokdal
1989	Atiq Ahmed		Independent
1991
1993
1996			Samajwadi Party
2002			Apna Dal
2004^	Raju Pal		Bahujan Samaj Party
2005^	Khalid Azim		Samajwadi Party
2007	Pooja Pal		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012
2017	Sidharth Nath Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

^ by poll

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Allahabad West^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Siddharth Nath Singh	118,759	53.29	+10.25
	SP	Richa Singh	88,826	39.86	+9.57
	BSP	Gulam Qadir	7,626	3.42	−16.96
	INC	Tasleem Uddin	2,295	1.03
	NOTA	None of the above	1,518	0.68	−0.16
Majority			29,933	13.43	+0.68
Turnout			222,861	48.49	+1.05
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Allahabad West^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sidharth Nath Singh	85,518	43.04
	SP	Richa Singh	60,182	30.29
	BSP	Pooja Pal	40,499	20.38
	Independent	Hasan Akhlaq Alias Rizwan Niwan	4,018	2.02
	NISHAD	Chandradev Singh Alias Daya Singh Bismark	2,974	1.5
	NOTA	None of the above	1,659	0.84
Majority			25,336	12.75
Turnout			198,692	47.44
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing	+28.64

2012

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Allahabad West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Pooja Pal	71,114	40.11
	AD(S)	Atiq Ahmad	62,229	35.10
	SP	Jyoti Yadav	18,867	10.64
	BJP	Ramji Kesarwani	9,740	5.49
	INC	Ravi Prakash	4,933	2.78
Majority			8,885	5.01
Turnout			1,77,311	51.74
	BSP hold		Swing

2007

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Pooja Pal	56,198	47.08
	SP	Khalid Azim	45,876	38.43
	BJP	Keshav Prasad Maurya	11,111	9.31
	INC	Syed Mohammad Shahab	2,110	1.76
	Independent	Sachin Sonkar	918	0.77
Majority			10,322	8.65
Turnout			1,19,355	34.05
	BSP gain from SP		Swing

2005 bypoll

By Election, 2005

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Khalid Azim	90,836	52.42
	BSP	Pooja Pal	77,453	44.69
	BJP	Lakshmi Shankar Ojha	1,410	0.82
	Independent	Vasudev	1,140	0.66
	INC	Sanjay Krishna Srivastava	660	0.38
Majority			13,383	7.73
Turnout			1,73,282	45.30
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

2004 bypoll

By Election, 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Raju Pal	70,533	47.16
	SP	Khalid Azim	65,715	43.94
	BJP	Keshav Prasad Maurya	6,116	4.09
	INC	Anshuman Singh	2,313	1.55
	AD(S)	Syed Asaf	1,165	0.78
Majority			4,818	3.22
Turnout			1,49,555	40.08
	BSP gain from AD(K)		Swing