Jalalpur Assembly constituency

For the defunct constituency in Bihar, see Jalalpur, Bihar Assembly constituency.

Jalalpur is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Jalalpur in the Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Jalalpur
Constituency No. 280 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ambedkar Nagar
Lok Sabha constituency	Ambedkar Nagar
Total electors	4,07,064
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rakesh Pandey
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Jalalpur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 280 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1967	Jagdamba Prasad		Independent
1969			Indian National Congress
1974	Bhagwati Prasad		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977
1980	Sher Bahadur Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Independent
1989	Ram Lakhan Verma		Bahujan Samaj Party
1991
1993
1996	Sher Bahadur Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Rakesh Pandey		Samajwadi Party
2007	Sher Bahadur Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012			Samajwadi Party
2017	Ritesh Pandey		Bahujan Samaj Party
2019^	Subhash Rai		Samajwadi Party
2022	Rakesh Pandey

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rakesh Pandey	93,668	36.18	11.77
	BSP	Dr. Rajesh Singh	80,038	30.91	6.6
	BJP	Subhash Rai	71,236	27.52	4.57
	VIP	Nitesh Kumar	2,410	0.93
	NOTA	None of the above	1,399	0.54	0.1
Majority			13,630	5.27	0.15
Turnout			258,897	63.6	0.94
	SP hold		Swing

2019

UP By-election, 2019: Jalalpur^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Subhash Rai	72589
	BSP	Dr. Chhaya Verma	71813
	BJP	Dr. Rajesh Singh	63390
	INC	Sunil Mishra	2521
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority			776
Turnout			2,29,809	58.41
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

2017

Ritesh Pandey won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Rajesh Singh by a margin of 13,030 votes.^[4]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Jalalpur^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Ritesh Pandey	90,309	37.51
	BJP	Dr. Rajesh Singh	77,279	32.09
	SP	Shankhilal Majhi	58,773	24.41
	NOTA	None of the above	1,531	0.64
Majority			13,030	5.42
Turnout			240,787	62.66
	BSP gain from		Swing