Mehnaun Assembly constituency

Mehnaun is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. It comprises the city of Khargupur and some other parts of Gonda tehsil, in Gonda district and is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gonda Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of 2022, it is represented by Vinay Kumar Dwivedi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Mehnaun
Constituency No. 295 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gonda
Total electors	3,66,079
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Vinay Kumar Dwivedi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2017

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2012	Nandita Shukla[2]		Samajwadi Party
2017[3]	Vinay Kumar Dwivedi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022[4]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Mehnaun^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vinay Kumar Dwivedi	107,327	52.4
	SP	Jagram Paswan	90,175	43.62
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,365	1.14
Majority
Turnout			206,720	48.3
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Vinay Kumar Dwivedi won the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Arshad Ali Khan by a margin of 36,378 votes.

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Mehnaun^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vinay Kumar Dwivedi	84,304	41.13
	BSP	Arshad Ali Khan	47,926	23.38
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,019	0.99
Majority			36,378
Turnout			206,971	58.13
	BJP gain from SP		Swing