Mohammadabad Assembly constituency

Mohammadabad is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly,^[1] and a segment of Ballia Lok Sabha constituency, covering the city of Mohammadabad (also spelled Muhammadabad) in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It should not be confused with the assembly segment Muhammadabad-Gohna which falls under Ghosi Lok Sabha seat in Mau district.

Mohammadabad
Constituency No. 378 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ghazipur
Total electors	4,24,837
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Suhaib Ansari
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Mohammadabad is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ballia Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 378 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1957	Sarju Pande		Communist Party of India
	Raghubir
1962	Vijay Shankar Singh		Indian National Congress
1967
1969
1974	Ram Janam Rai		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977			Janata Party
1980	Vijay Shankar Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Afzal Ansari		Communist Party of India
1989
1991
1993
1996			Samajwadi Party
2002	Krishnanand Rai		Bharatiya Janata Party
2006^	Alka Rai
2007	Sibgatullah Ansari		Samajwadi Party
2012			Quami Ekta Dal
2017	Alka Rai		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Suhaib Ansari		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Suhaib Ansari	111,443	45.26	new
	BJP	Alka Rai	92,684	37.64	15.44
	BSP	Madhvendra Rai	32,440	13.18	25.68
	Jan Adhikar Party	Sanjay Singh Kushwaha	2,522	1.02
	INC	Dr. Arvind Roy	2,458	1.00
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,567	0.64
Majority			18,759
Turnout
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

• Alka Rai (BJP) : 122,156 votes^[4]
• Sibgatulla Ansari (BSP) : 89,429 (Lost by 32,727 votes)

1977 Vidhan Sabha Elections

• Ram Janam Rai (JNP) : 22,371 votes^[5]
• Krishna Nand Rai (INC) : 20,378 (He was not the same person as 2002 winner from this seat.)