Colonelganj Assembly constituency

Colonelganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the town of Colonelganj in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Colonelganj
Constituency No. 298 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gonda
Total electors	3,30,403
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ajay Kumar Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

Colonelganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Kaiserganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 298 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1967	Kunwar Madan Mohan Singh		Independent politician
1969	Bhagelu Singh		Samyukta Socialist Party
1974	Raghuraj Singh		Indian National Congress
1977	Triveni Singh		Janata Party
1980	Umeshwar Pratap Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya		Independent politician
1991			Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996
2002	Yogesh Pratap Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007	Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya		Indian National Congress
2008^	Kunwari Brij Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Yogesh Pratap Singh		Samajwadi Party
2017	Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Ajay Kumar Singh

^denotes by-poll

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Colonelganj^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Singh	108,109	55.8	+10.39
	SP	Yogesh Pratap Singh	72,637	37.49	+7.64
	BSP	Ranjeet	3,764	1.94	−16.28
	INC	Triloki Nath Tiwari	3,756	1.94
	NOTA	None of the above	2,399	1.24	−0.27
Majority			35,472	18.31	+2.75
Turnout			193,761	58.64	+0.69
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya won in the Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Yogesh Pratap Singh by a margin of 28,405 votes.^[2]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Colonelganj ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ajay Pratap Singh	82,867	45.41
	SP	Yogesh Pratap Singh	54,462	29.85
	BSP	Santosh Kumar Tiwari	33,241	18.22
	NOTA	None of the above	2,748	1.51
Majority			28,405	15.56
Turnout			182,468	57.95