Balamau Assembly constituency

Balamau is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Balamau in the Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1] Balamau is one of five assembly constituencies in the Misrikh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 160 amongst 403 constituencies.

Balamau
Constituency No. 160 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Hardoi
Total electors	3,47,218
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ram Pal Verma
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	Anil Verma

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2012[2]	Anil Verma		Samajwadi Party
2017	Ram Pal Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Balamau^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ram Pal Verma	81,994	42.84	+2.99
	SP	Rambali Verma	55,750	29.13	+5.99
	BSP	Tilak Chandra	42,551	22.23	−5.45
	INC	Surendra Kumar	4,112	2.15
	NOTA	None of the above	2,047	1.07	0.0
Majority			26,244	13.71	+1.54
Turnout			191,387	55.12	+1.02
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ram Pal Verma won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Neelu Satyarthi by a margin of 22,888 votes.^[4]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Balamau^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ram Pal Verma	74,917	39.85
	BSP	Neelu Satyarthi	52,029	27.68
	SP	Sushila Saroj	43,507	23.14
	Jan Adhikar Manch	Surendra Kumar	7,734	4.11
	NOTA	None of the above	2,005	1.07
Majority			22,888	12.17
Turnout			187,997	54.1
	BJP gain from SP		Swing