Machhlishahr Assembly constituency

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

Machhlishahr
Constituency No. 369 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Jaunpur
Total electors	4,02,078
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ragini Sonkar
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Machhlishahr is one of five assembly constituencies in the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 369 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1957	Mohammed Rauf Jafri		Indian National Congress
1962	Kesari Prasad		Praja Socialist Party
1967	Mohammed Rauf Jafri		Indian National Congress
1969	Moti Lal		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1974	Agha Zaidi		Indian National Congress
1977	Arun Kumar
1980	Keshri Prasad		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Jwala Prasad Yadav		Janata Dal
1991
1993
1996			Samajwadi Party
2002	Vinod Kumar Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007	Subhash Pandey
2012	Jagdish Sonkar		Samajwadi Party
2017
2022	Ragini Sonkar

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Dr. Ragini Sonkar [3]	91,659	41.99	7.26
	BJP	Mihilal Gautam	83,175	38.10	5.37
	BSP	Vijay Kumar	35,059	16.06	9.28
	INC	Mala Devi Sonkar	2,178	1.00
		NOTA (None of the Above) + Rest of the candidates	~6,000	3.00
Majority			8,484
Turnout
	SP hold		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Jagdish Sonkar won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anita Rawat by a margin of 4,179 votes.^[4]

2017 General Elections: Machhlishahr^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Jagdish Sonkar	72,368	35.10	−
	BJP	Anita Rawat	68,189	33.07	−
	BSP	Sushila Saroj	52,796	25.61	−
	NISHAD	Ram Sevak	4,484	2.17	−
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,165	1.05
		Remainder 10 candidates	8,342	4	−
Majority			4,179	2.01	−
Turnout			2,08,344	57.06	−
	SP hold		Swing