Ayodhya Assembly constituency
Legislative assembly in Uttar Pradesh, India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ayodhya is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ayodhya in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 275 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Ayodhya | |
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| Constituency No. 275 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Ayodhya |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Faizabad |
| Total electors | 3,82,056 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Bharatiya Janata Party member Ved Prakash Gupta is the incumbent MLA, who won in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Tej Narayan Pandey by a margin of 19,990 votes.[2]
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | B. Kishore | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1969 | Vishwanath Kapoor | Indian National Congress | |
| 1974 | Bed Prakash Agarwal | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1977 | Jai Shanker Pandey | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Nirmal Kumar | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Surendra Pratap Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1989 | Jai Shanker Pandey | Janata Dal | |
| 1991 | Lallu Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1993 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | |||
| 2012 | Tej Narayan Pandey | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Ved Prakash Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ved Prakash Gupta | 113,414 | 49.04 |  0.16 | |
| SP | Tej Narayan Pandey | 93,424 | 40.4 |  14.39 | |
| BSP | Ravi Prakash | 17,706 | 7.66 | 10.53 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,240 | 0.54 | 0.17 | |
| Majority | 19,990 | 8.64 | 14.55 | ||
| Turnout | 231,258 | 60.53 | 1.43 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ved Prakash Gupta | 107,014 | 49.2 | ||
| SP | Tej Narayan Pandey | 56,574 | 26.01 | ||
| BSP | Mo Bazmi Siddeke | 39,554 | 18.19 | ||
| BMP | Banshi Lal Yadav | 5,661 | 2.6 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,544 | 0.71 | ||
| Majority | 50,440 | 23.19 | |||
| Turnout | 217,488 | 61.96 | |||
| BJP gain from SP | Swing | ||||
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