Bansgaon Assembly constituency

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

Bansgaon
Constituency No. 327 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gorakhpur
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Vimlesh Paswan
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	Vijay Kumar

Bansgaon is one of five assembly constituencies in the Bansgaon Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 327 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1957	Ganesh Prasad		Indian National Congress
1962
1967	Jagdish Singh		Samyukta Socialist Party
1967^	Masali Devi
1969
1977	Babu Lal		Janata Party
1980	Kailash Prasad		Indian National Congress (Indira)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Mithai Lal Shastri		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991	Yadhu Nath
1993	Molai		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Sant Prasad		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Sadal Prasad		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007
2012	Vijay Kumar
2017	Vimlesh Paswan		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vimlesh Paswan	87,224	46.26	6.01
	SP	Sanjay Kumar	54,915	29.13	4.5
	BSP	Ramnayan Azad	37,204	19.73	7.72
	INC	Poonam	2,050	1.09
	NOTA	None of the above	1,460	0.77	0.43
Majority			32,309	17.13	4.33
Turnout			188,542	49.48	1.25
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Vimlesh Paswan won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Dharmendra Kumar by a margin of 22,873 votes.^[3]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vimlesh Paswan	71,966	40.25
	BSP	Dharmendra Kumar	49,093	27.45
	SP	Sharada Devi	44,051	24.63
	NISHAD	Nandlal	7,892	4.41
	NOTA	None of the above	2,143	1.2
Majority			22,873	12.8
Turnout			178,818	48.23
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing