Goshainganj Assembly constituency

Goshainganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Goshainganj in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 276 amongst 403 constituencies.^[1]

Goshainganj
Constituency No. 276 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ayodhya
Lok Sabha constituency	Ambedkar Nagar
Total electors	3,95,118
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Abhay Singh
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Abhay Singh[2]		Samajwadi Party
2017	Indra Pratap Tiwari[3]		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Abhay Singh		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

The constituency was won by Samajwadi Party member Abhay Singh, who won in the 2022 elections, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Aarti Tiwari by a margin of 13,079 votes.

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Abhay Singh	105,863	43.87	+9.57
	BJP	Aarti Tiwari	92,784	38.45	−0.96
	BSP	Ram Sagar	37,271	15.45	−5.02
	NOTA	None of the above	1,747	0.72	−0.56
Majority			13,079	5.42	+0.31
Turnout			241,298	61.07	+0.63
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Indra Pratap Alias Khabbu Tiwari	89,586	39.41
	SP	Abhay Singh	77,966	34.3
	BSP	Dharmraj Nishad	46,528	20.47
	NISHAD	Ram Nayan	5,137	2.26
	NOTA	None of the above	2,878	1.28
Majority			11,620	5.11
Turnout			227,339	60.44