Ghazipur Sadar Assembly constituency

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

Ghazipur Sadar
Constituency No. 375 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ghazipur
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jai Kishan Sahu
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Ghazipur Sadar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 375 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1957	Pabbar Ram		Communist Party of India
1962	Krishna Nand Rai		Indian National Congress
1967	Pabbar Ram		Communist Party of India
1969	Ram Surat Singh		Indian National Congress
1974	Shah Abdul Faiz		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977	Mohd Khalilullan Kuraishi		Janata Party
1980	Ram Narain		Janata Party (Secular)
1985	Amitabh Anil Dubey		Indian National Congress
1989	Khursheed		Independent
1991	Udai Pratap		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Election countermanded due to violence
1994^	Raj Bahadur		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Rajendra		Communist Party of India
2002	Umashankar Kushwaha		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007	Saiyyada Shadab Fatima		Samajwadi Party
2012	Vijay Kumar Mishra
2017	Sangeeta Balwant		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Jai Kishan Sahu		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ghazipur Sadar^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Jai Kishan Sahu	92,472	40.81	+12.96
	BJP	Smt. Sangeeta Balwant Bind	90,780	40.06	−3.06
	BSP	Dr. Raj Kumar Singh Gautam	33,931	14.97	−10.78
	NOTA	None of the above	421	0.19	−0.51
Majority			1,692	0.75	−14.52
Turnout			226,595	62.04	−1.0
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sangeeta Balwant won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Rajesh Kushwaha by a margin of 32,607 votes.^[3]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ghazipur Sadar^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sangeeta	92,090	43.12
	SP	Rajesh Kushwaha	59,483	27.85
	BSP	Santosh Kumar	54,987	25.75
	NOTA	None of the above	1,479	0.7
Majority			32,607	15.27
Turnout			213,558	63.04

See also

• Ghazipur
• Ghazipur district
• List of constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly