Matera Assembly constituency

Matera is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Matera in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Matera is one of five assembly constituencies in the Bahraich Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 284 amongst 403 constituencies.

Matera
Constituency No. 284 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bahraich
Total electors	3,42,204
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mariya Shah
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2012[2]	Yasar Shah		Samajwadi Party
2017[3]
2022	Mariya Shah[4]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Matera^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Mariya Shah	102,255	48.15
	BJP	Arun Veer Singh	91,827	43.24
	BSP	Aquib Ullah Khan	8,918	4.2
	INC	Ali Akbar	2,964	1.4
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,759	1.3
Majority
Turnout
	SP hold		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Yasar Shah won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Arun Veer Singh by a margin of 1,595 votes.^[6]