Vishwanathganj Assembly constituency

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

Vishwanathganj
Constituency No. 247 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Pratapgarh
Total electors	3,99,623
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jeet Lal Patel
Party	Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Elected year	2022

Vishwanathganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 247 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Raja Ram		Samajwadi Party
2014^	Rakesh Kumar Verma		Apna Dal
2017			Apna Dal (Soneylal)
2022	Jeet Lal Patel

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AD(S)	Jeet Lal Patel	86,829
	SP	Saurabh Singh	38,777
	Independent	Sanjay Pandey	22,962
	Jan Adhikar Party	Mohd Ashfaq	20,271
	INC	Prashant Singh	1,933
	AAP	Pankaj Pal[4]	1,484
Majority			48,052
Turnout
	AD(S) hold		Swing

2017

Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Rakesh Kumar Verma won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating INC candidate Sanjay Pandey by a margin of 23,358 votes.^[5][6]