Banda, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

Banda is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Banda in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1] Banda is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lok Sabha constituency of Banda. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 235 amongst 403 constituencies.^[2]

Banda
Constituency No. 235 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Banda
Total electors	3,10,282
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Prakash Dwivedi
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	Vivek Kumar Singh

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Prakash Dwivedi who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Madhusudan Kushwaha by a margin of 32,828 votes.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Elected year	MLA[4]	Party
1957	Pahalwan Singh		Indian National Congress
1962	Brij Mohan Lal Gupta
1967	G. S. Saraf		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969	Mahiraj Dhwaj Singh		Indian National Congress
1974	Jamuna Prasad Bose		Socialist Party
1977			Janata Party
1980	Chandra Prakash Sharma		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985	Jamuna Prasad Bose		Janata Party
1989			Janata Dal
1991	Nasimuddin Siddiqui		Bahujan Samaj Party
1993	Raj Kumar Shivhare		Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Vivek Kumar Singh		Indian National Congress
2002	Babu Lal Kushwaha		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007	Vivek Kumar Singh		Indian National Congress
2012
2017[5]	Prakash Dwivedi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Banda^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Prakash Dwivedi	81,557	41.34	−4.27
	SP	Manjula Singh	66,343	33.63
	BSP	Dheeraj Prakash	38,284	19.4	−8.21
	Jan Adhikar Party	Hanuman Das	3,776	1.91
	INC	Laxminarayan	1,894	0.96	−16.71
	NOTA	None of the above	1,991	1.01	+0.47
Majority			15,214	7.71	−10.29
Turnout			197,300	63.59	+3.65
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Banda^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Prakash Dwivedi	83,169	45.61
	BSP	Madhusudan Kushwaha	50,341	27.61
	INC	Vivek Kumar Singh	32,223	17.67
	Independent	Mohd. Aslam	2,736	1.5
	CPI	Shyam Sunder Singh	1,953	1.07
	Sarv Sambhaav Party	Vimal Krishan	1,642	0.9
	NOTA	None of the above	979	0.54
Majority			32,828	18.0
Turnout			182,334	59.94