Purwa Assembly constituency

Purwa is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Purwa in the Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[2]

Purwa
Constituency No. 167 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Unnao
Total electors	4,15,472
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Anil Singh
Party	BJP
Elected year	2022[1]

Purwa is one of six assembly constituencies in the Unnao Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 167 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Anil Singh who won in the Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Uttam Chandra by a margin of 26,483 votes.^[3]

Anil Singh also won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Udayraj by a margin of 31061 votes.^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[5]	Party
1952	Ramadhin Singh		Indian National Congress
1957	Parmeshwari Din Varma		Independent
1962	Ramadhin Singh		Indian National Congress
1967	Lakhan Singh		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969	Dularey Lal		Indian National Congress
1974	Gaya Singh
1977	Chandra Bhushan Singh		Janata Party
1980	Gaya Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Hriday Narayan Dikshit		Independent
1989			Janata Dal
1991			Janata Party
1993			Samajwadi Party
1996	Udayraj Yadav
2002
2007
2012
2017	Anil Kumar Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2022			Bharatiya Janata Party