Malhani Assembly constituency

Malhani is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Malhani in the Jaunpur District of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[2]

Malhani
Constituency No. 367 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Jaunpur
Total electors	379,389[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Lucky Yadav
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	Parasnath Yadav

Malhani is one of five Assembly constituencies in the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this Assembly constituency is numbered 367 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[3]	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Parasnath Yadav		Samajwadi Party
2017
2020^	Lucky Yadav
2022

^ by-election

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Lucky Yadav	97,357	42.57	+7.12
	JD(U)	Dhananjay Singh	79,830	34.91
	BSP	Shailendra Yadav	24,007	10.50	−1.65
	BJP	Krishna Pratap Singh K.P.	18,319	8.01	−5.91
	AAP	Jay Prakash	2,697	1.18
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,333	0.58
Majority			17,527	7.66	+5.33
Turnout			228,695	60.28	+3.59
	SP hold		Swing

By-elections 2020

In the 2020 assembly by-election, Shri. Lucky Yadav, son of late Shri. Parasnath Yadav has won the MLA seat defeating Shri. Dhananjay Singh by the margin of around 4000 votes.

This seat was vacant since June 2020 due to the demise of former MLA Shri. Parasnath Yadav. Now this position has been taken by his son Shri. Lucky Yadav. Last Election Samajwadi Party candidate Parasnath Yadav won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Nishad Party candidate Dhananjay Singh by a margin of 21,210 votes.^[4][5][1]

By-election, 2020: Malhani

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Lucky Yadav	73,468	35.45	+1.78
	IND.	Dhananjay Singh	68,836	33.12
	BJP	Manoj Kumar Singh	28,840	13.92	+5.00
	BSP	Jai Prakash Dubey	25,180	12.15	−10.19
	INC	Rakesh Mishra Mangala Guru	2,871	1.39
Majority			4,632	2.33	−7.97
Turnout			2,07,252	56.69	−3.35
	SP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Malhani^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Parasnath Yadav	69,351	33.67
	NISHAD	Dhananjay Singh	48,141	23.37
	BSP	Vivek Yadav	46,011	22.34
	BJP	Satish Kumar Singh	38,966	18.92
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,707	0.83
Majority			21,210	10.30
Turnout			206,269	60.04