Chunar Assembly constituency

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

Chunar
Constituency No. 398 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Mirzapur
Total electors	3,54,274
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Anurag Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2017

Chunar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 398 amongst 403 constituencies. Current MLA from Chunar is Anurag Singh.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1957	Raj Kumar		Indian National Congress
1959^	Onkar Nath
1962	Rajnarain Singh
1967
1969	Shiva Das		Samyukta Socialist Party
1974	Om Prakash Singh		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977			Janata Party
1980	Yadunath Singh		Janata Party (Secular)
1985			Lokdal
1989			Janata Dal
1991
1993	Om Prakash Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
2002
2007
2012	Jagtamba Patel		Samajwadi Party
2017	Anurag Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Anurag Singh[2]	110,980	50.26	1.5
	AD(K)	Ramashankar Prasad Singh	63,366	28.7
	BSP	Vijay Kumar Alias A.V.Bhaiya	29,389	13.31	4.73
	INC	Seema Devi	4,164	1.89
	VIP	Amit Kumar Singh	2,782	1.26
	NOTA	None of the above	3,921	1.78	0.61
Majority			47,614	21.56	7.17
Turnout			220,823	62.33	2.22
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anurag Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Jagtamba Singh Patel by a margin of 62,228 votes.^[3]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Anurag Singh[4]	105,608	48.76
	SP	Jagtamba Singh Patel	43,380	20.03
	BSP	Anmol Singh	39,067	18.04
	Independent	Ramraj Singh Patel	17,009	7.85
	Independent	Sarvesh Kumar Singh Alias Raja Bhaiya	3,898	1.8
	NOTA	None of the above	2,541	1.17
Majority			62,228	28.73
Turnout			216,603	64.55