Kursi Assembly constituency

Kursi is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kursi in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Barabanki Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 266 amongst 403 constituencies.

Kursi
Constituency No. 266 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Barabanki
Total electors	3,95,071
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sakendra Pratap Verma
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2012	Fareed Mahfooj Kidwai[2]		Samajwadi Party
2017[3]	Sakendra Pratap Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022[4]

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sakendra Pratap Verma	118,720	41.15	−0.11
	SP	Rakesh Kumar Verma	118,503	41.07	+10.73
	BSP	Meeta Gautam	35,561	12.33	−7.12
	AIMIM	Kumail Asharaf Khan	8,541	2.96
	INC	Shrimati Urmila Patel	2,803	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	1,723	0.6	+0.04
Majority			217	0.08	−10.84
Turnout			288,519	73.03	+2.9
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sakendra Pratap Verma won the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai by a margin of 28,679 votes.^[5]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Kursi^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sakendra Pratap Verma	108,403	41.26
	SP	Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai	79,724	30.34
	BSP	V.P.Singh Verma	51,091	19.45
	PECP	Sarvar Ali	8,329	3.17
	Independent	Ch.Talib Najib Kokab	4,381	1.67
	RLD	Amar Singh	2,445	0.93
	NOTA	None of the above	1,460	0.56
Majority			28,679	10.92
Turnout			262,731	70.13

See also

• List of constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Barabanki district