Azamgarh Assembly constituency

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

Azamgarh
Constituency No. 347 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Azamgarh
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Durga Prasad Yadav
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Azamgarh is one of the 5 assembly constituencies in the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 347 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	2nd Vidhan Sabha	Bisram	Praja Socialist Party	April 1957	March 1962	1,800
02	3rd Vidhan Sabha	Bhima Prasad		March 1962	March 1967	1,828
03	4th Vidhan Sabha		Samyukta Socialist Party	March 1967	April 1968	402	[1]
04	5th Vidhan Sabha			February 1969	March 1974	1,832	[2]
05	6th Vidhan Sabha	Bisram	Bharatiya Kranti Dal	March 1974	April 1977	1,153	[3]
06	7th Vidhan Sabha	Bhima Prasad	Indian National Congress	June 1977	February 1980	969	[4]
07	8th Vidhan Sabha	Ram Kunwar Singh	Indian National Congress (Indira)	June 1980	March 1985	1,735	[5]
08	9th Vidhan Sabha	Durga Prasad Yadav	Independent	March 1985	November 1989	1,725	[6]
09	10th Vidhan Sabha		Janata Dal	December 1989	April 1991	488	[7]
10	11th Vidhan Sabha			June 1991	December 1992	533	[8]
11	12th Vidhan Sabha	Raj Bali Yadav	Bahujan Samaj Party	December 1993	October 1995	693	[9]
12	13th Vidhan Sabha	Durga Prasad Yadav	Samajwadi Party	October 1996	March 2002	1,967	[10]
13	14th Vidhan Sabha			February 2002	May 2007	1,902	[11]
14	15th Vidhan Sabha			May 2007	March 2012	1,736	[12]
15	16th Vidhan Sabha			March 2012	March 2017	1,829	[13]
16	17th Vidhan Sabha			March 2017	2022	3066	[14]
17	18th Vidhan Sabha			March 2022	Incumbent		[15]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Azamgarh^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Durga Prasad Yadav	100,813	42.66	+1.49
	BJP	Akhilesh Mishra	84,777	35.87	+6.97
	BSP	Sushil Kumar Singh	39,281	16.62	−10.58
	AIMIM	Kamar Kamal	5,532	2.34
	INC	Praveen Kumar Singh	2,175	0.92
	NOTA	None of the above	1,470	0.62	−0.39
Majority			16,036	6.79	−5.48
Turnout			236,330	59.64	+2.59
	SP hold		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Durga Prasad Yadav won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Akhilesh Mishra by a margin of 26,262 votes.^[16]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Azamgarh^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Durga Prasad Yadav	88,087	41.17
	BJP	Akhilesh Mishra	61,825	28.9
	BSP	Bhupendra	58,185	27.2
	NOTA	None of the above	2,134	1.01
Majority			26,262	12.27
Turnout			213,948	57.05
	SP hold		Swing