Unchahar Assembly constituency

Unchahar is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Unchahar in the Rae Bareli district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Unchahar
Constituency No. 183 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Rae Bareli
Lok Sabha constituency	Rae Bareli
Established	2008
Total electors	325371 (2017)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Manoj Kumar Pandey
Party	Samajwadi Party
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2022

Unchahar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lok Sabha constituency of Rae Bareli. It was established as instructed by the Delimitaion Order 2008.^[1] It is numbered 183 among the constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.^[2]

Currently this seat is held by Samajwadi Party (who later defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party^[3]) candidate Manoj Kumar Pandey who won from the seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Elections defeating BJP candidate Amarpal Maurya by a margin of 6621 votes. Manoj Kumar Pandey has held this seat since the first election after its creation, 2012.^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
2012[5]	Manoj Kumar Pandey		Samajwadi Party
2017[2]
2022[6]

Election results

2022

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Unchahar^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Manoj Kumar Pandey	82,514	39.2	10.7
	BJP	Amarpal Maurya	75,893	36.0	8.4
	BSP	Anjali Maurya	34,692	16.5	5.4
	INC	Atul Singh	9,985	4.7	11.5
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,243	0.4	0.4
Majority			6,621	3.1%	2.2%
Turnout			2,10,787	62.5%	1.2%
	SP hold		Swing	+10.7%

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Unchahar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Manoj Kumar Pandey	59,103	28.5	4.7
	BJP	Utkrist Maurya	57,169	27.6	25.6
	BSP	Vivek Vikram Singh	45,356	21.9	9.9
	INC	Ajai Pal Singh	34,274	16.6	9.1
	BMP	Mo.Junaid	2,000	1.0	−
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,517	0.8	−
Majority			1,934	0.9%	0.5%
Turnout			2,04,571	63.7%	1.1%
	SP hold		Swing	-4.7%

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Unchahar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Manoj Kumar Pandey	61,930	33.2	−
	BSP	Utkrist Maurya	59,348	31.8	−
	INC	Ajay Pal Singh	47,898	25.7	−
	Independent	Jitendra Bahadur Singh	3,814	2.0	−
	BJP	Ramesh Kumar	3,763	2.0	−
Majority			2,582	1.4%	−
Turnout			1,86,356	64.7%	New Seat

Note: Constituency was established in 2008, hence no swing data.

See also

• Rae Bareli District
• Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency
• 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha