Bahraich Assembly constituency

Bahraich is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Bahraich in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Bahraich is one of five assembly constituencies in the Bahraich Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 286 amongst 403 constituencies.

Bahraich
Constituency No. 286 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bahraich
Lok Sabha constituency	Bahraich
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Anupama Jaiswal
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	Waqar Ahmad Shah

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anupama Jaiswal who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Rubab Sayda by a margin of 6,702 votes.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Main article: Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)

#	Term	Name	Party	From	To	Days	Comments	Ref
01	01st Vidhan Sabha	Raj Kishore	Indian National Congress	20 May 1952	31 March 1957	1,776	-Bahraich East	[2]
01	01st Vidhan Sabha	Triloki Nath Kaul		20 May 1952	31 March 1957	1,776	-Bahraich West	[2]
02	02nd Vidhan Sabha	Zargham Haider	Praja Socialist Party	1 April 1957	6 March 1962	1,800	-Bahraich North	[3]
02	02nd Vidhan Sabha	Birendra Bikram Singh	Independent	1 April 1957	6 March 1962	1,800	-Bahraich South	[3]
03	03rd Vidhan Sabha	Jadish Prasad	Indian National Congress	7 March 1962	9 March-1967	1,828	-Bahraich North	[4]
03	03nd Vidhan Sabha	Daljit Singh		7 March 1962	9 March 1967	1,828	-Bahraich South	[3]
04	04th Vidhan Sabha	K. B. Misra	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	10 March 1967	15 April 1968	402	-Bahraich	[5]
05	05th Vidhan Sabha	Kedar Nath Agarwal	Indian National Congress	26 February 1969	4 March 1974	1,832	-Bahraich	[6]
06	06th Vidhan Sabha			4 March 1974	30 April 1977	1,153	-Bahraich	[7]
07	07th Vidhan Sabha	Mohammad Atif Khan	Janata Party	23 June 1977	17 February	969	-Bahraich	[8]
08	08th Vidhan Sabha	Dharam Pal	Bharatiya Janata Party	9 Jun-1980	10 March 1985	1,735	-Bahraich	[9]
09	09th Vidhan Sabha	Maharan Nath Kaul	Indian National Congress	10 March 1985	29 November 1989	1,725	-Bahraich	[10]
10	10th Vidhan Sabha	Dharam Pal		2 December 1989	4 April 1991	488	-Bahraich	[11]
11	11th Vidhan Sabha	Brij Raj Tripathi	Bharatiya Janata Party	22 June 1991	6 December-1992	533	-Bahraich	[12]
12	12th Vidhan Sabha	Waqar Ahmad Shah	Samajwadi Party	4 December 1993	28 October 1995	693	-Bahraich	[13]
13	13th Vidhan Sabha			17 October 1996	7 March 2002	1,967	-Bahraich	[14]
14	14th Vidhan Sabha			26 February 2002	13 May 2007	1,902	-Bahraich	[15]
15	15th Vidhan Sabha			13 May 2007	9 March 2012	1,762	-Bahraich	[16]
16	16th Vidhan Sabha			8 March 2012	11 March 2017	1,829	-Bahraich	[17]
17	17th Vidhan Sabha	Anupama Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party	14 March 2017	-11 March 2017	1,823	-Bahraich	[18]
18	18th Vidhan Sabha			March 2022	-	-	-Bahraich	[18]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bahraich^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Anupama Jaiswal	107,628	46.45	5.45
	SP	Yasar Shah	103,550	44.69	6.83
	BSP	Naeem	10,299	4.44	12.58
	INC	Jai Prakash Mishra	3,275	1.41
	AIMIM	Rashid Jamil	2,240	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	2,076	0.9	0.32
Majority			4,078	1.76	1.38
Turnout			231,708	59.14	0.62
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bahraich^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Anupama Jaiswal	87,479	41.0
	SP	Rubab Sayda	80,777	37.86
	BSP	Ajeet Pratap Singh	36,325	17.02
	NOTA	None of the above	2,604	1.22
Majority			6,702	3.14
Turnout			213,375	59.76
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2012

Waqar Ahmad Shah has won the seat five times.

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bahraich^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Waqar Ahmad Shah	50,759	29.5102
	INC	Chandra Shekhar Singh	35263	20.5%