Payagpur Assembly constituency

Payagpur is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Payagpur and other parts of Bhairach tehsil as well as parts of Kaiserganj tehsil, both in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1][2] It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Kaiserganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 287 amongst 403 constituencies.

Payagpur
Constituency No. 287 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bahraich
Total electors	3,90,097
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Subhash Tripathi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2017

As of 2022, this seat is represented by Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Subhash Tripathi who won the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Mukesh Srivastava by a margin of 41,541 votes.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2012	Mukesh Srivastava[4]		Indian National Congress
2017[5]	Subhash Tripathi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022[3]

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Subhash Tripathi	110,162	47.77	−1.82
	SP	Mukesh Srivastava	98,106	42.54	+13.1
	BSP	Geeta	11,232	4.87	−9.25
	AIMIM	Raise Ahmad	3,586	1.55
	INC	Rana Shivam Singh	2,957	1.28	−0.78
	NOTA	None of the above	2,322	1.01	−0.4
Majority			12,056	5.23	−14.92
Turnout			230,613	59.12	+2.32
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Payagpur^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Subhash Tripathi	102,254	49.59
	SP	Mukesh Srivastava Alias Gyanendera Pratap	60,713	29.44
	BSP	Mohd. Mushraf	29,122	14.12
	INC	Bhagat Ram	4,239	2.06
	Lok Shahi Party (Secular)	Aswani Kumar	2,284	1.11
	NOTA	None of the above	2,871	1.41
Majority			41,541	20.15
Turnout			206,193	56.8
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

See also

• Bahraich district
• List of constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly