Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

Balrampur is an Assembly constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, covering the city of Balrampur in the Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Balrampur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Shravasti Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 294 amongst 403 constituencies.

Balrampur
Constituency No. 294 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Balrampur
Total electors	4,28,009
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Paltu Ram[1]
Party	BJP
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	Jagram Paswan

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Elected year	MLA[2]	Party
1957	Dashrath Prasad		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
	Deen Dayal Karun		Indian National Congress
1969	Maheshwar Dutt Singh
1974	Man Bahadur Singh
1977	Ashfaq		Janata Party
1980	Man Bahadur Singh		Indian National Congress
1985
1989	Hanumant Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993	Vinay Kumar Pandey		Samajwadi Party
1996			Indian National Congress
2002	Geeta Singh		Samajwadi Party
2007	Dhirendra Pratap Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Jagram Paswan		Samajwadi Party
2017[3]	Paltu Ram		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022[1]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Balrampur^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Paltu Ram	101,146	48.93	2.68
	SP	Jagram Paswan	90,175	43.62
	BSP	Hari Ram	5,371	2.6	10.86
	INC	Babita	2,576	1.25	32.14
	NOTA	None of the above	2,365	1.14	0.66
Majority			10,971	5.31	7.55
Turnout			206,720	48.3	1.24
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Paltu Ram won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Shivlal by a margin of 24,860 votes.^[4]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Paltu Ram	89,401	46.25
	INC	Shivlal	64,541	33.39
	BSP	Ram Sagar Akela	26,011	13.46
	PECP	Shiv Kumar	2,357	1.22
	Mahakranti Dal	Madan Lal	1,798	0.93
	NOTA	None of the above	3,414	1.8
Majority			24,860	12.86
Turnout			193,307	47.06

1977

• Ashfaq (JNP) : 18,909 votes