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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Anurag Singh[2]	110708[3]
	AD(K)	Ramashankar Prasad Singh	62708

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.^[4]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chunar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Anurag Singh[5]	105149
	SP	Jagtamba Singh Patel	43094