Ghatampur Assembly constituency

Ghatampur is one of 403 legislative assembly seats of the Uttar Pradesh.^[1] It is part of the Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency Lok Sabha constituency.

Ghatampur
Constituency No. 218 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Kanpur Nagar
Lok Sabha constituency	Akbarpur
Total electors	319,148 (2020)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Saroj Kureel
Party	Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Elected year	2022

Overview

Ghatampur comprises KCs- Rewna, Patara, Ghatampur, Baripal, bhitargaon block, Narwal tehsil and Ghatampur Municipal Corporation of Ghatampur Tehsil.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[3]	Party
1957	Jawala Prasad		Indian National Congress
	Brij Bihari Mehrotra
1967	Beni Singh
1969
1974	Shivnath Kushwaha		Socialist Party
1977	Ram Asrey Agnihotri		Janata Party
1980	Shivnath Kushwaha		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Ram Asrey Agnihotri		Janata Dal
1991	Shivnath Kushwaha		Indian National Congress
1993	Rakesh Sachan		Janata Dal
1996	Raja Ram Pal		Bahujan Samaj Party
2002	Rakesh Sachan		Samajwadi Party
2007	Ram Prakash Kushwaha		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Indrajeet Kori		Samajwadi Party
2017	Kamal Rani Varun		Bharatiya Janata Party
2020^	Upendranath Paswan
2022	Saroj Kureel		Apna Dal (Soneylal)

• *By Election

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ghatampur^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AD(S)	Saroj Kureel	81,727	41.6
	SP	Bhagwati Prasad Sagar	67,253	34.23
	BSP	Prashant Ahirwar	32,472	16.53	−8.36
	INC	Raj Narayan Kureel	3,798	1.93	−19.23
	Jan Adhikar Party	Mamta Kushwaha	2,844	1.45
	ASP(KR)	Ram Jeevan Kori	2,009	1.02
	NOTA	None of the above	1,653	0.84	−0.29
Majority			14,474	7.37	−16.26
Turnout			196,466	60.55	−1.35
	AD(S) hold		Swing

2020 bypoll

U. P. Legislative Assembly By Election, 2020: Ghatampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Upendra Nath Paswan	60,405	38.36
	INC	Kripa Shankar Sankhwar	36,585	23.23
	BSP	Kuldeep Sankhwar	33,955	21.56
	SP	Indrajeet Kori	22,735	14.44
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,555	0.99
Majority			23,820	15.13
Turnout			1,57,790	49.24
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ghatampur^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kamal Rani	92,776	48.52
	BSP	Saroj Kureel	47,598	24.89
	INC	Nandram Sonkar	40,465	21.16
	NISHAD	Rajendra	2,813	1.47
	Bharatiya Shakti Chetna Party	Ramjeevan	2,016	1.05
	NOTA	None of the above	2,160	1.13
Majority			45,178	23.63
Turnout			191,219	61.9
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2012

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Ghatampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Indrajeet Kori	50,669	28.54
	BSP	Saroj Kureel	49,969	28.15
	INC	Nandram Sonkar	42,772	24.09
	BJP	Geeta Devi	23,472	13.22
	IND.	Dinesh Kumar Sonkar	1,765	0.99
Majority			700	0.39
Turnout			1,77,538	58.23
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

2007

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007: Ghatampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Ram Prakash Kushwaha	65,793	47.32
	SP	Rakesh Sachan	63,316	45.54
	IND.	Hari Nath Singh	3,220	2.32
	RLD	Vimlesh Pathak	2,143	1.54
	AD(K)	Ashok Yadav	1,592	1.14
Majority			2,477	1.78
Turnout			1,39,037	54.79
	BSP gain from SP		Swing

2002

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2002: Ghatampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rakesh Sachan	44,108	33.76
	BSP	Raja Ram Pal	36,852	28.20
	INC	Shivnath Singh Kushwaha	26,224	20.07
	AD(K)	Vijay Sachan	10,505	8.04
	RLD	Vimlesh Pathak	7,724	5.91
Majority			7,256	5.56
Turnout			1,30,670	56.21
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017
Kanpur Dehat Lok Sabha Constituency Summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Bharatiya Janata Party	5	4
Samajwadi Party	0	4
Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0
Indian National Congress	0	0

See also

• List of Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh