Shahganj Assembly constituency

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

Shahganj
Constituency No. 365 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Jaunpur
Total electors	4,07,439
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ramesh Singh
Party	NISHAD Party
Elected year	2022

Shahganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 365 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Lakshmi Shankar Yadav		Indian National Congress
	Babu Nandan
1957	Kunwar Sripal		Independent
	Mata Prasad		Indian National Congress
1962	Lakshmi Shankar Yadav
1967	Mata Prasad
1969
1974
1977	Chhotey Lal		Janata Party
1980	Pahlwan		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Deep Chand Sonkar		Lokdal
1989			Janata Dal
1991	Ram Paras Rajak		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Ram Dawar		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Bankey Lal Sonkar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Jagdish Sonkar		Samajwadi Party
2007
2012	Shailendra Yadav Lalai
2017
2022	Ramesh Singh		NISHAD Party

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NISHAD	Ramesh Singh
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	NISHAD gain from SP		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Shailendra Yadav Lalai, won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party candidate Rana Ajeet Pratap Singh by a margin of 9,162 votes.^[4][5][6]