Jaunpur Assembly constituency

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

Jaunpur
Constituency No. 366 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Jaunpur
Total electors	4,35,634
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Girish Chandra Yadav
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2017

Jaunpur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 366 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1957[1]	Yadavendra Dutt Dubey		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1962[2]
1967	Kailashpati		Indian National Congress
1969	Jang Bahadur		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1974	Om Prakash[3]		Indian National Congress
1977[4]	Kamla Prasad Singh
1980[5]			Indian National Congress
1985	Chandrasen[6]		Lokdal
1989	Arjun Singh Yadav[7]		Independent
1991	Lal Chand		Janata Dal
1993	Mohammad Arshad Khan		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Afzal Ahmad[8]		Samajwadi Party
2002	Surendra Pratap Singh[9]		Bharatiya Janata Party
2007	Javed Ansari[10]		Samajwadi Party
2012	Nadeem Javed[11]		Indian National Congress
2017	Girish Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022 Jaunpur Assembly

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Jaunpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Girish Chandra	97264	39.35%	−1.03
	SP	MOHD. ARSHAD KHAN	89,708
	BSP	SALEEM KHAN	30,576
	INC	NADEEM JAVED	12,150
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority			8,052
Turnout			2,48,447
	gain from		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Girish Chandra Yadav won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Nadeem Javed by a margin of 12,284 votes.^[12]