Bhojipura Assembly constituency

Bhojipura Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Bareilly district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1956.^[1] After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 120.^[2][3][4][5]

Bhojipura
Constituency No. 120 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bareilly
Total electors	289,427 (2012)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shazil Islam Ansari
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Wards / Areas

Extent of Bhojipura Assembly constituency is KC Shergarh, Devraniya NP & Shergarh NP of Baheri Tehsil; KCs Bhojipura, Rithora, CB Ganj, Rithora NP, Dhaura Tanda NP & Pipalsana Chaudhdhari (CT) of Bareilly Tehsil.^[3]

Popular Village- Jadounpur is a village which was established in 1873 AD by two families, one of the Bajajas (Kade Ansari) and the other of the Chaudhdharis (unknown). Bajaj means one who sells clothes, and Chaudhdhari is interested in politics. Both these families are Ansari by caste and Muslims by religion. It is very popular for its growing marketing and business. According to historians of the 19th century, it was clearly observed that there were some inter-caste groups of Kurmi clans known as Jadon (Kurmi), who are similar to Gangwar and intermarry. These were the initial settlers in this village. |Popular businesses|- textile;sarees, enterprises:almirah,electricals. Nargis cloth house is the oldest and most famous cloth store whereas Shahji electricals are popular for electricals and almirahs.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[6]	Party
1957	Babu Ram		Indian National Congress
1962	Harish Kumar Gangawar		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1967
1969	Bhanu Pratap Singh		Indian National Congress
1974	Harish Kumar Gangawar		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977	Hamid Raza Khan		Independent
1980	Bhanu Pratap Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Narendra Pal Singh		Indian National Congress
1989			Janata Dal
1991	Kunwar Subhash Patel		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Harish Kumar Gangawar		Samajwadi Party
1996	Bahoran Lal Maurya		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Virendra Singh		Samajwadi Party
2007	Shazil Islam Ansari		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012			Ittehad-e-Millat Council
2017	Bahoran Lal Maurya		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Shazil Islam Ansari		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bhojipura

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Shahzil Islam Ansari	119,402	45.88
	BJP	Bahoran Lal Maurya	109,993	42.26
	BSP	Yogesh Patel	26,909	10.34
	INC	Sardar Khan	1,963	0.75
	NOTA	None of the above	1,373	0.53
	AAP	Dr. Mahender Pal Singh Rana [7]	610	0.23
Majority			9,409
Turnout
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2012

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 General Elections: Bhojipura

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IEMC	Shazil Islam Ansari	65,531	32.55	–
	SP	Virendra Singh Gangwar	47,583	23.63	–
	BJP	Bahoran Lal Maurya	34,281	17.03	–
		Remainder 16 candidates	53,932	26.78	–
Majority			17,948	8.91	–
Turnout			201,327	69.56	–
	IEMC gain from BSP		Swing

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Notable people

• Bahoran Lal Maurya - Former MLA & Minister & Current MLC
• Yogesh Patel - Block Pramukh: After not getting ticket from BJP, he resigned and joined BSP

See also

• Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency
• Bareilly district
• Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Vidhan Bhawan