Pharenda Assembly constituency

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

Pharenda
Constituency No. 315 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Maharajganj
Total electors	211490
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Virendra Chaudhary
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2022

Pharenda is one of five assembly constituencies in the Maharajganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 315 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1951	Gauri Ram		Indian National Congress
1967			Independent
1969	Pyari		Indian National Congress
1974	Lakshmi Narayan		Communist Party of India
1977	Shyam Narayan Tiwari
1980			Independent
1985	Harshwardhan Singh		Janata Party
1989	Shyam Narayan Tiwari		Indian National Congress
1991
1993	Chaudhary Shivendra Bahadur Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Vinod Mani		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2002	Shyam Narayan Tiwari		Indian National Congress
2007	Bajrang Bahadur Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2012
2015^	Syed Arshad		Samajwadi Party
2017	Bajrang Bahadur Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Virendra Chaudhary		Indian National Congress

Election results

2015

Source:^[2]

2015 By Poll Elections: Pharenda^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Syed Arshad	64,818	37.76	23.50
	INC	Virendra Chaudhary	55,647	32.42	13.45
	BJP	Bajrang Bahadur Singh	41,247	24.03	2.25
	Independent	Vijay	5,720	3.33
		Remaining 3 Candidates	4,149	2.41
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,056	1.19	New
Majority			9,231	5.37	1.94
Turnout			1,71,641	53.02	6.96
Registered electors			3,23,726
	SP gain from BJP		Swing	11.48

2012 Assembly Elections: Pharenda^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bajrang Bahadur Singh	47,921	26.28
	INC	Virendra Chaudhary	34,586	18.97
	BSP	Parsuram	34,065	18.68
	SP	Shyam Narayan	26,006	14.26
	PECP	Ram Prakash Singh	23,438	12.86
		Remaining 15 Candidates	16,302	8.94
Majority			13,335	7.31
Turnout			1,82,318	59.98
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Bajrang Bahadur Singh won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Virendra Chaudhary by a margin of 2,354 votes.^[5]

2017 Assembly Elections: Pharenda^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bajrang Bahadur Singh	76,312	38.75	14.72
	INC	Virendra Chaudhary	73,958	37.55	5.13
	BSP	Bechan	35,765	18.16	0.52
	RLD	Vijay Singh	2,742	1.39	New
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,992	1.01	0.18
	NISHAD	Raj Kumar Nishad	1,930	0.98	New
	AIMIM	Reena	1,878	0.95	New
	SS	Jitendra	1,006	0.51	New
	LKD	Shashi Bhooshan	885	0.45	New
	Independent	Gobind Das	769	0.39
	PECP	Rajendra	645	0.33	12.53
	JHSPT	Shiv Kumari Devi	634	0.32	New
	BMP	Nagendra Nath	429	0.22	New
Majority			2,354	1.18	4.19
Turnout			1,98,945	59.64	6.62
Registered electors			3,33,601
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	0.99

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pharenda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Virendra Chaudhary	85,181	40.28
	BJP	Bajrang Bahadur Singh	83,935	39.69
	BSP	Ishoo Chaurasiya	21,665	10.24
	SP	Shankh Lal manjhi	16,457	7.78
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,484	0.70
		Rest of the Candidates	~2,700	1.35
Majority			1,246
Turnout
	INC gain from BJP		Swing