Gauriganj Assembly constituency

Gauriganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gauriganj in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]

Gauriganj
Constituency No. 185 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Amethi
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rakesh Pratap Singh
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Gauriganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 185 amongst 403 constituencies.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2017	Rakesh Pratap Singh		Samajwadi Party
2022[2]

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rakesh Pratap Singh	79,040	38.96	+0.21
	BJP	Chandraprakash Mishra Matiyari	72,077	35.53	+23.77
	INC	Fateh Bahadur	28,964	14.28	−11.33
	BSP	Ramlakhan	9,872	4.87	−11.97
	Jansatta Dal (L)	Chaudhary Nafees Ahamad	7,056	3.48
	NOTA	None of the above	1,920	0.95	+0.37
Majority			6,963	3.43	−9.71
Turnout			202,856	57.94	−1.94
	SP hold		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Rakesh Pratap Singh won in 2017 defeating Indian National Congress candidate Mohammad Nayem by a margin of 26,419 votes.^[3] On 31 October 2021, Singh resigned from the 17th Uttar Pradesh Assembly citing "non-fulfilment of promises" by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Partygovernment.^[4]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rakesh Pratap Singh	77,915	38.75
	INC	Mohammad Nayeem	51,496	25.61
	BSP	Vijay Kishor	33,848	16.84
	BJP	Uma Shankar Pandey	23,642	11.76
	RLD	Ravindra Kumar	1,876	0.93
	NOTA	None of the above	1,155	0.58
Majority			26,419	13.14
Turnout			201,048	59.88