Dhanghata Assembly constituency

Dhanghata
Dhanghata
Constituency No. 314 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Sant Kabir Nagar
Total electors	357,096 (2017)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Ganesh Chandra Chauhan
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

Dhanghata is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Dhanghata in the Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 314 amongst 403 constituencies.

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Since 2017, Bharatiya Janta Party member Sriram Chauhan is the MLA, who won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Agloo Prasad by a margin of 16,909 votes.^[1]

Year	Member^[2]
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Alagoo Prasad Chauhan	Samajwadi Party
2017	Sriram Chauhan	Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Ganesh Chandra Chauhan	Bharatiya Janata Party

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ganeh Chandra	83,241	38.5	1.23
	SBSP	Alagu Prasad	72,688	33.62
	BSP	Santosh	40,693	18.82	7.11
	Independent	Yashavant	5,433	2.51
	Jan Adhikar Party	Narendra Dev	3,960	1.83
	VIP	Amrit Kumar	2,266	1.05
	INC	Shanti Devi	1,971	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	1,915	0.89	0.04
Majority			10,553	4.88	3.56
Turnout			216,222	55.81	0.27
	BJP gain from SBSP		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sriram Chauhan	79,572	39.73
	SP	Algoo Prasad Chauhan	62,663	31.29
	BSP	Neel Mani	51,938	25.93
	NOTA	None of the above	1,871	0.93
Majority			16,909	8.44
Turnout			200,275	56.08
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Algoo Prasad Chauhan	66,337	35.55	35.55
	BSP	Ram Sidhare	51,388	27.54	27.54
	BJP	Neel Mani	40,491	21.70	21.70
	PECP	Surendra Kumar	9,660	5.18	5.18
	INC	Archana Mahatam	9,293	4.98	4.98
	SBSP	Om Hari	3,726	2.00	2.00
		Remainder 5 Candidates	5,725	3.07
Majority			14,949	8.01	8.01
Turnout			1,86,620	55.30	55.30
	SP win (new seat)

Members of the Legislative Assembly