Phulpur Assembly constituency

Phulpur Assembly constituency is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Phulpur in the Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1] The Delimitation Commission abolished the Jhusi Assembly constituency and in its place this new constituency came into existence in 2012.^[2]

Phulpur
Constituency No. 256 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Prayagraj
Total electors	3,80,837 (2017)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Deepak Patel
Party	BJP
Elected year	2024

Phulpur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 256 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Sayeed Ahamad		Samajwadi Party
2017	Praveen Patel		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022
2024^	Deepak Patel

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

2024 by-election

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election, 2024: Phulpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Deepak Patel	78,289	44.1
	SP	Mohammad Mujtaba Siddiqui	66,984	37.73
	BSP	Jitendra Kumar Singh	24,791	13.97
	Azad samaj party	Shahid Khan	1,389	0.78	New
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	NOTA	None of the Above	1,145	0.65	0.02
Majority			11,305	6.37	5.26
Turnout			1,77,514	43.46
	BJP hold		Swing

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Praveen Patel	103,557	42
	SP	Mohammad Mujtaba Siddiqui	1,00,825	40.89
	BSP	Ram Tolan Yadav	33,036	13.40
	INC	Siddhanath Maurya	1,626	0.66
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,548	0.63
Majority			2,732	1.11
Turnout			2,46,588
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Praveen Patel won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Mansoor Alam by a margin of 26,613 votes.^[4]

2012 Vidhan Sabha

• Sayeed Ahamad (SP) : 72,898 votes ^[5]
• Praveen Patel (BSP) : 64,998

1977 Vidhan Sabha

• Padmakar (JNP) : 27,238 votes ^[6]
• Abul Kalam (INC) : 19,317

1962 Vidhan Sabha

• Muzaffar Hasan (INC) : 21,560 votes ^[7]
• Amar Singh (Jana Sangh) : 7,232