Pipraich Assembly constituency

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

Pipraich
Constituency No. 321 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gorakhpur
Lok Sabha constituency	Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency
Total electors	3,86,459 (2017)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mahendra Pal Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2017

Pipraich is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 321 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1957	Achhaiber Singh		Indian National Congress
1962
1967	Madhukar Dighe		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Hari Prasad Shahi		Indian National Congress
1974	Madhukar Dighe		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977			Janata Party
1980	Kedar Nath Singh		Indian National Congress (U)
1985	Sayed Javed Ali		Indian National Congress
1989	Kedar Nath Singh		Janata Dal
1991	Lallan Prasad Tripathi		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Jitendra Jaiswal		Independent
1996
2002
2007	Jamuna Nishad		Bahujan Samaj Party
2010^	Rajmati Nishad		Samajwadi Party
2012
2017	Mahendra Pal Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pipraich

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Dhirendra Pratap Jaiswal [2]
	BJP	Mahendra Pal Singh
	SP	Amrendra Nishad
		TBD
		TBD
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Mahendra Pal Singh won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Aftab Alam by a margin of 12,809 votes.^[3]

2017 Assembly Elections: Pipraich^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mahendra Pal Singh	82,739	33.80	18.99
	BSP	Afatab Alam Urf Guddu	69,930	28.56	2.88
	SP	Amrendra Nishad	51,031	20.85	22.65
	Independent	Anita Jaiswal	31,073	12.69
		Remaining 15 Candidates	10,038	3.61
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,204	0.49	New
Majority			12,809	5.24	12.58
Turnout			2,46,015	63.66	3.94
Registered electors			3,86,459
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	9.70

2012

2012 Assembly Elections: Pipraich^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rajmati Nishad	86,976	43.50
	BSP	Jitendra	51,341	25.68
	BJP	Radheshyam	29,617	14.81
	SBSP	Dildar Husain	5,948	2.97
	INC	Amarjeet	4,449	2.23
	RSBP	Mohd Mainuddin	3,700	1.85
	JD(U)	Lalji	2,757	1.38
	Independent	Sarvajit	1,412	0.71
	PECP	Surendra Kumar	1,149	0.57
		Remaining 21 Candidates	12,596	6.30
Majority			35,635	17.82
Turnout			1,99,945	59.72
	SP hold		Swing