Mankapur Assembly constituency

Mankapur is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Mankapur in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gonda Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 300 amongst 403 constituencies.

Mankapur
Constituency No. 300 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gonda
Total electors	3,31,841
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ramapati Shastri
Party	BJP
Elected year	2017

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1957[2]	Raja Raghavendra Pratap Singh		Independent politician
1962[3]			Swatantra Party
1964^	Kunwar Anand Singh		Indian National Congress
1967[4]
1969[5]
1972^	Devendra Nath Mishra
1974	Ram Garib[6]
1977	Ganga Prasad[7]
1980	Chhedi Lal[8]		Indian National Congress (I)
1985[9]	Ram Vishun Azad		Indian National Congress
1989[10]
1991	Chhedi Lal		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Ram Vishun Azad		Indian National Congress
1996[11]			Samajwadi Party
2002[12]
2007[13]
2012	Babulal[14]
2017[15]	Ramapati Shastri		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

^denotes by-poll

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Mankapur^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Jai Ram Suman
	INC	Kamla Sisodiya
	SP	Ramesh Gautam
	BJP	Ramapati Shastri
	BSP	Shyam Narayan
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Ramapati Shastri won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Ramesh Chandra by a margin of 60,161 votes.^[15]