Budhana Assembly constituency

Budhana Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Muzaffarnagar district and one of the six assembly constituencies in the Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency. First elections in this assembly constituency were held in 1957 after the "Final Order DC (1953-1955)" was passed. The constituency ceased to exist in 1967 post "Delimitation Orders (1967)" was passed. In 2008, the assembly constituency was again created during the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008".^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Budhana
Constituency No. 11 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Muzaffarnagar
Lok Sabha constituency	Muzaffarnagar
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rajpal Singh Baliyan
Party	Rashtriya Lok Dal
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Elected year	2022

Wards / Areas

Extent of Budhana Assembly constituency is Budhana Tehsil (except PCs Nala, Taharpur Bhabisa, Kaniyan, Salfa and Sunna of Budhana KC).^[4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[5]	Party
1957	Kunwar Asghar Ali		Independent
1958^	Kamru		Indian National Congress
1962	Vijaypal Singh		Communist Party of India
1962-2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Nawazish Alam Khan		Samajwadi Party
2017	Umesh Malik		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Rajpal Singh Baliyan		Rashtriya Lok Dal

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Budhana

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RLD	Rajpal Singh Baliyan	1,31,093	51.28	41.48
	BJP	Umesh Malik	1,02,783	40.21	0.29
	BSP	Anees Alvi	10,397	4.07	8.43
	AIMIM	Bhim Singh Baliyan	2,633	1.03	new
	INC	Devendra Kashyap	2,452	0.96
	ASP(KR)	Saleem Chaudhary	2,099	0.82	new
	NOTA	NOTA	1,070	0.42
Majority			28,310	11.07
Turnout			2,55,624	67.73%
	RLD gain from BJP		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Budhana

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Umesh Malik	97,781	40.77
	SP	Pramod Tyagi	84,580	35.27
	BSP	Saeeda Begam	30,034	12.52
	RLD	Yograj Singh	23,732	9.9
	NOTA	NOTA	1286	0.54
Majority			13,201	5.50
Turnout			2,41,116	67.14
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Budhana^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Nawazish Alam Khan	68,210	35.45	−
	RLD	Rajpal Singh Baliyan	57,622	29.95	−
	BSP	Yograj Singh	41,233	21.43	−
	BJP	Umesh Malik	15,948	8.29	−
Majority			10,588	5.50	−
Turnout			192,413	58.30	−
	SP hold		Swing	-

1958

1958 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by election: Budhana^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kamru Deen	11,902		−
	CPI	Vijai Pal Singh	10,332		−
	Independent	Shafquat Jung	9532		−
Majority			1570		−
	INC hold		Swing	-

1957

1957 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Budhana^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Kunwar Asghar Ali	32,755	53.32	−
	INC	Shri Chand Panwar	28,425	46.48	−
Majority			4300		−
	INC hold		Swing	-

See also

• Government of Uttar Pradesh
• Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency
• List of Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh
• Muzaffarnagar district
• Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Uttar Pradesh