Manikpur Assembly constituency

Manikpur is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the Manikpur Sarhat town in the Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]

Manikpur
Constituency No. 237 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Chitrakoot
Total electors	3,38,989
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Avinash Chandra Dwivedi
Party	Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Elected year	2022

Manikpur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Banda Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 237 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat is Vacant.

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Avinash Chandra Tripathi[3]

2019 Bypoll

By-election, 2019: Manikpur^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ananda Shukla	66,288
	SP	Nirbhay Singh patel	53,767
	BSP	Ramnarayan kol
	INC	Priyadarshan Tiwari
	NOTA
Majority
Turnout			1,77,176	52.34
	BJP hold		Swing	Priyadarshan

2017

R. K. Singh Patel won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress and Samajwadi Party candidate Sampat Pal by a margin of 44,464 votes.^[5]