Mehnagar Assembly constituency

Mehnagar is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Mehnagar in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Mehnagar
Constituency No. 352 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Azamgarh
Total electors	4,04,280
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Puja Saroj
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Mehnagar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 352 amongst 403 constituencies.

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Mehnagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Puja Saroj	86,960	39.35
	BJP	Manju Saroj	72,811	32.94
	BSP	Pankaj Kumar	50,173	22.70
	AIMIM	Karmveer Azad	4,377	1.98
	CPI	Jiyalal	1,784	0.81
	INC	Nirmala Bharti	1,662	0.75
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,649	0.75
Majority			14,149
Turnout
	SP hold		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Kalpnath Paswan won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party candidate Manjoo Saroj by a margin of 5,412 votes.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	04th Vidhan Sabha	Jainu	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	March 1967	April 1968	402	[2]
02	05th Vidhan Sabha	Chhangur	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	February 1969	March 1974	1,832	[3]
03	06th Vidhan Sabha	Jang Bahadur	Bharatiya Kranti Dal	March 1974	April 1977	1,153	[4]
04	07th Vidhan Sabha	Bhuddhoo	Janata Party	June 1977	February 1980	969	[5]
05	08th Vidhan Sabha	Deep Narayan	Indian National Congress (Indira)	June 1980	March 1985	1,735	[6]
06	09th Vidhan Sabha		Indian National Congress	March 1985	November 1989	1,725	[7]
07	10th Vidhan Sabha			December 1989	April 1991	488	[8]
08	11th Vidhan Sabha	Kalpnath Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party	June 1991	December 1992	533	[9]
09	12th Vidhan Sabha	Daroga Prasad	Samajwadi Party	December 1993	October 1995	693	[10]
10	13th Vidhan Sabha	Ram Jag	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	October 1996	March 2002	1,967	[11]
11	14th Vidhan Sabha	Vidya Chaudhary	Bahujan Samaj Party	February 2002	May 2007	1,902	[12]
12	15th Vidhan Sabha			May 2007	March 2012	1,736	[13]
13	16th Vidhan Sabha	Brij Lal Sonkar	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	[14]
14	17th Vidhan Sabha	Kalpnath Paswan	Samajwadi Party	March 2017	March 2022	2997	[15]