Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

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

Chitrakoot
Constituency No. 236 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Chitrakoot
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Anil Pradhan
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Chitrakoot is one of five assembly constituencies in the Banda Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 236 amongst 403 constituencies.

This seat belongs to Samajwadi party candidate Anil Pradhan who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating BJP candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay by a margin of around 21,000 votes.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Name	Party	From	To	Days	Comments	Ref
1	16th Vidhan Sabha	Veer Singh	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	-	[1]
2	17th Vidhan Sabha	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	Bharatiya Janata Party	March 2017	March 2022	3068		[2]
3	18th Vidhan Sabha	Anil Pradhan	Samajwadi Party	March 2022	Incumbent

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Anil Pradhan	104,771	43.23	14.55
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	83,895	34.62	6.23
	BSP	Pushpendra Singh	38,711	15.97	5.63
	Jan Adhikar Party	Avinash Chandra Tripathi	2,420	1.0
	NOTA	None of the above	3,290	1.36	0.26
Majority			20,876	8.61	3.56
Turnout			242,357	64.61	2.59
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

Main article: Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh

2017 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	90,366	40.85
	SP	Veer Singh Patel	63,430	28.68
	BSP	Jagdish Prasad Gautam	47,780	21.6
	CPI	Amit Yadav	3,378	1.53
	NISHAD	Ugrasen	2,679	1.21
	Jan Adhikar Manch	Chhedilal	2,543	1.15
	NOTA	None of the above	3,529	1.62
Majority			26,936	12.17
Turnout			221,199	62.02
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	5.74

2012

Main article: Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh

2012 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Veer Singh Patel	65,267	35.78
	BSP	Ram Sevak	49,131	26.93
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	32,507	17.82
	INC	Pushpendra Singh	18,921	10.37
	CPI	Amit Yadav	4,291	2.35
		Remainder 8 candidates	12,308	6.74
Majority			16,136	8.85
Turnout			1,82,425	60.55
	SP win (new seat)