Didarganj Assembly constituency

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

Didarganj
Constituency No. 350 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Azamgarh
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kamlakant Rajbhar
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Didarganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lalganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 350 amongst 403 constituencies.

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Kamlakant Rajbhar	74,342	36.99	5.79
	BJP	Krishna Murari Vishwakarma	60,781	30.25	3.58
	BSP	Bhupendra	47,094	23.43	9.72
	RUC	Huzaifa Aamir Rashadi	10,070	5.01
	AIMIM	Zaved	2,199	1.09
	NOTA	None of the above	864	0.43	0.45
Majority			13,561	6.74	4.79
Turnout			200,957	54.98	0.11
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

2017

Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Sukhdev Rajbhar won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Adil Sheikh by a margin of 3,645 votes.^[2]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Sukhdev Rajbhar	62,125	33.15
	SP	Adil Shaikh	58,480	31.2
	BJP	Krishna Murari	49,979	26.67
	Independent	Archana	6,828	3.64
	Mahakranti Dal	Jashwant	2,227	1.19
	NISHAD	Ranvijay	2,105	1.12
	NOTA	None of the above	1,653	0.88
Majority			3,645	1.95
Turnout			187,419	54.87

Members of Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	16th Vidhan Sabha	Adil Shaikh Azmi	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	[3]
02	17th Vidhan Sabha	Sukhdev Rajbhar	Bahujan Samaj Party	March 2017	October 2021	2991	[4]
03	18th Vidhan Sabha	Kamlakant Rajbhar	Samajwadi Party	March 2022	Incumbent		[1]