Lalganj, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

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

Lalganj
Constituency No. 351 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Azamgarh
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bechai Saroj
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Lalganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lalganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 351 amongst 403 constituencies.

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Lalganj^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Bechai	83,767	38.31	+11.7
	BJP	Neelam	69,034	31.57	−3.04
	BSP	Hariram	57,809	26.44	−9.27
	INC	Pushpa Bhartiy	2,099	0.96
	NOTA	None of the above	1,743	0.8	−0.25
Majority			14,733	6.74	+5.64
Turnout			218,657	53.65	+0.55
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

2017

Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Azad Ari Mardan won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Daroga Prasad Saroj by a margin of 2,227 votes.^[2]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Lalgan^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Azad Ari Mardan	72,715	35.71
	BJP	Daroga Prasad Saroj	70,488	34.61
	SP	Bechai Saroj	54,196	26.61
	NOTA	None of the above	2,123	1.05
Majority			2,227	1.1
Turnout			203,646	53.1

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	2nd Vidhan Sabha	Indra Bhushan	Independent	April 1957	March 1962	1,800	two seat
02		Dhani Ram	Indian National Congress
03	4th Vidhan Sabha	Triveni		March 1967	April 1968	402	[3]
04	5th Vidhan Sabha			February 1969	March 1974	1,832	[4]
05	6th Vidhan Sabha			March 1974	April 1977	1,153	[5]
06	7th Vidhan Sabha	Ish Dutt	Janata Party	June 1977	February 1980	969	[6]
07	8th Vidhan Sabha	Triveni	Indian National Congress (Indira)	June 1980	March 1985	1,735	[7]
08		Ravindra	Indian National Congress				By Poll in 1982
09	9th Vidhan Sabha	Shree Prakash	Janata Party	March 1985	November 1989	1,725	[8]
10	10th Vidhan Sabha		Janata Dal	December 1989	April 1991	488	[9]
11	11th Vidhan Sabha	Sukhdev Rajbhar	Bahujan Samaj Party	June 1991	December 1992	533	[10]
12	12th Vidhan Sabha			December 1993	October 1995	693	[11]
13	13th Vidhan Sabha	Narendra Singh	Bhartiya Janata Party	October 1996	March 2002	1,967	[12]
14	14th Vidhan Sabha	Sukhdev Rajbhar	Bahujan Samaj Party	February 2002	May 2007	1,902	[13]
15	15th Vidhan Sabha			May 2007	March 2012	1,736	[14]
16	16th Vidhan Sabha	Bechai	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	[15]
17	17th Vidhan Sabha	Azad Ari Mardan	Bahujan Samaj Party	March 2017	March 2022	3073	[16]