Jakhanian Assembly constituency

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

Jakhanian
Constituency No. 373 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ghazipur
Total electors	4,32,337
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Triveni Ram
Party	Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party
Elected year	2022

Jakhanian is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 373 amongst 403 constituencies.^[2][3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[4]	Party
1967	Deo Ram		Indian National Congress
1969
1974	Jhilmit Ram		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977	Deo Ram		Janata Party
1980	Jhilmit Ram		Indian National Congress (I)
1984^	Chhedi Ram		Janata Party (Secular)
1985	Jhilmit Ram		Indian National Congress
1989	Rajnath Sonkar Shastri		Janata Dal
1991	Girdhari
1993	Chandra Shekhar		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Vijay Kumar
2002	Chhedi Ram		Samajwadi Party
2007	Vijay Kumar		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Subba Ram		Samajwadi Party
2017	Triveni Ram		Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Jakhanian^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SBSP	Triveni Ram	113,378	44.53
	BJP	Ramraj Vanvasi (Mushar)	76,513	30.05
	BSP	Vijay Kumar	51,585	20.26
	INC	Sunil Ram	1,926	0.76
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,544	0.61
	CPI	Ram Sukla Ram	1,484	0.58
Majority			36,865
Turnout
	SBSP hold		Swing

2017

Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party candidate Triveni Ram won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Gareeb by a margin of 5,157 votes.^[6]