Chakia Assembly constituency

Chakia is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Chakia in the Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]

Chakia
Constituency No. 383 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Chandauli
Total electors	3,78,414
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kailash Kharwar
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

Chakia is one of five assembly constituencies in the Robertsganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 383 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1962	Ram Lakhan		Indian National Congress
1967	Bechan Ram		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Ram Lakhan		Indian National Congress
1974	Bechan Ram
1977	Shyam Deo		Janata Party
1980	Kharpat Ram		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Satyaprakash Sonkar		Janata Dal
1991	Rajesh Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996	Satyaprakash Sonkar		Samajwadi Party
2002	Shivtapasya Paswan		Bharatiya Janata Party
2007	Jitendra Kumar		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Poonam Sonkar		Samajwadi Party
2017	Sharada Prasad		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Kailash Kharwar

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chakia^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Ravishankar Pehalwan [4]

2017

Sharada Prasad of the Bharatiya Janta Party, defeated Jitendra Kumar of the Bahujan Samaj Party by a margin of 20,063 votes during the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections.^[5]

See also

• Chandauli district
• List of constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly