Meerganj Assembly constituency

Meerganj Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Bareilly district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 2012 after the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed and the constituency was formed in 2008. The constituency is assigned identification number 119.^[1][2][3][4]

Meerganj
Constituency No. 119 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bareilly
Total electors	363,673 (2022)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dr. D.C. Verma
Party	Bhartiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

Wards / Areas

Extant of Meerganj Assembly constituency is Meerganj Tehsil.^[2] There are two blocks in this constituency, Fatehgarh west and Meerganj.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Name	Party	From	To	Days	Comments	Ref
01	16th Vidhan Sabha	Sultan Baig	Bahujan Samaj Party	Mar-2012	Mar-2017	-	-	[5]
02	17th Vidhan Sabha	D. C. Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	Mar-2017	Mar-2022	-	-	–
03	18th Vidhan Sabha	D. C. Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	Mar-2022	Incumbent	-	-	–

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Meerganj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr D C Verma ( Dal Chand Lodhi)	116435	50.98
	SP	Sultan Beg	83955	36.76
	BSP	Kunwar Bhanu Pratap Singh	19189	8.4
	INC	Mohd Ilyas	5288	2.32
	NOTA	None of the Above	1162	.51
Majority
Turnout			228387	62.80
	gain from		Swing

2017

2017 General Elections: Meerganj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	D. C. Verma	1,08,789	51.74
	BSP	Sultan Baig	54,289	25.82
	INC	Narendra Pal Singh	36,938	17.57
	MD	Bhanu Pratap Singh	2,267	1.08
	PECP	Shakeel Ahmad	1,696	0.81
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,749	0.83
Majority			54,500	25.92
Turnout			2,10,276	64.74
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing

2012

2012 General Elections: Meerganj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Sultan Baig	57,446	31.23	−
	BJP	D. C. Verma	49,525	26.93	−
	SP	Haji Zahid Husain Guddu	35,299	19.19	−
		Remainder 11 candidates	41,649	22.64	−
Majority			7,921	4.31	−
Turnout			183,919	66.39	−
	BSP hold		Swing

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See also

• Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency
• Bareilly district
• Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Vidhan Bhawan