Shamli Assembly constituency

It is a highly Jat dominated seat with influence of sugarcane farmers.

Shamli
Constituency No. 10 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent MLA Persann Chaudhary
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Shamli
Total electors	311,974[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Persann Kumar Chaudhary
Party	Rashtriya Lok Dal
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Elected year	2022

Shamli is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Shamli district (prior to 2012, Shamli was a part of Muzaffarnagar district) and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kairana Lok Sabha constituency. First assembly election in this assembly constituency was conducted in 2012 after the constituency came into existence in the year 2008 as a result of the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008".^[2][3][4]

Wards / Areas

Extent of Assembly constituency is Shamli, Banat, Ailum and all other regions of Shamli Tehsil; Kandrawali, Aaldi, Kandhala, Gangeru of Kairana Tehsil; Nala, Taharpur Bhabisa, Kaniyan, Salfa & Sunna of Budhana Tehsil.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[5]	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Pankaj Kumar Malik		Indian National Congress
2017	Tejendra Nirwal		Bharatiya Janta Party
2022	Persann Kumar Chaudhary		Rashtriya Lok Dal

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Shamli

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RLD	Persann Kumar Chaudhary	1,03,070	48.86	31.69
	BJP	Tejendra Nirwal	95,963	45.49	9.63
	BSP	Bijendra Malik S/o Satpal	8,183	3.88	4.88
	INC	Mohd Ayub Jang	780	0.37	20.28
	NOTA	NOTA	799	0.38
Majority			7,107	3.22
Turnout			2,10,952	67.50	2.02
	RLD gain from BJP		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Shamli

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Tejendra Nirwal	70,085	35.86	+30.45
	INC	Pankaj Kumar Malik	40,365	20.65	−11.40
	RLD	Bijendra Singh	33,551	17.17	−
	Independent	Manish Kumar	31,824	16.28	−
	BSP	Mohammad Islam	17,114	8.76	−18.33
	None of the Above	NOTA	901	0.46
		Remaining 7 candidates	2,507	1.27
Majority			29,720	15.21
Turnout			1,96,347	65.48	+4.57
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+30.45

2012

2012 Assembly Elections: Shamli

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Pankaj Kumar Malik	53,947	32.05
	SP	Choudhary Virender Singh	50,206	29.83
	BSP	Balbir Singh	45,597	27.09
	BJP	Satyendra Verma	9,105	5.41
		Remaining 22 candidates	9,449	5.61
Majority			3,741	2.22
Turnout			1,68,304	60.91
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Government of Uttar Pradesh
• Kairana Lok Sabha constituency
• List of Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh
• Shamli district
• Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Uttar Pradesh