Phoolpur Pawai Assembly constituency

Phoolpur Pawai is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Phoolpur Pawai in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]

Phoolpur Pawai
Constituency No. 349 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Azamgarh
Total electors	3,28,807
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ramakant Yadav
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Phoolpur Pawai is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lalganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 349 amongst 403 constituencies.

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Phoolpur Pawai^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Ramakant Yadav	81,164	42.00
	BJP	Ramsurat Rajbhar	55,858	28.91
	BSP	Shakeel Ahmed	49,495	25.61
	INC	Mohammad Shahid	1,558	0.81
	JAP(L)	Yogendra Pratap	1,529	0.79
	NOTA	None of the above	~3,500	1.80
Majority			25,306
Turnout
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Arun Kumar Yadav won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Abul Qais Azmi by a margin of 7,295 votes.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year		Member	Political Party
	1951	Shiva Nath Katju	Indian National Congress
	1957	Shiv Murti	Indian National Congress
	1957	Sukhi Ram Bhartiya	Indian National Congress
	1962	Muzaffar Hasan	Indian National Congress
	1967	Ram Bachan	Indian National Congress
	1969	Ram Bachan	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
	1974	Ram Bachan	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
	1977	Padmakar	Janata Party
	1980	Abul Kalam	Indian National Congress (Indira)
	1985	Ramakant Yadav	Indian National Congress (Jagjivan)
	1989	Ramakant Yadav	Bahujan Samaj Party
	1991	Ramakant Yadav	Janata Party
	1993	Ramakant Yadav	Samajwadi Party
	1996	Ram Naresh Yadav	Indian National Congress
	2002	Ram Naresh Yadav	Indian National Congress
	2007	Arun Kumar Yadav	Samajwadi Party
	2012	Shyam Bahadur Yadav	Samajwadi Party
	2017	Arun Kumar Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2022	Ramakant Yadav	Samajwadi Party