Zafrabad Assembly constituency

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

Zafrabad
Constituency No. 371 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Jaunpur
Total electors	3,98,511
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jagdish Narayan
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Zafrabad is one of five assembly constituencies in the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 371 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Sachindra Nath Tripathi		Samajwadi Party
2017	Harendra Prasad Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Jagadish Narayan		Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SBSP	Jagadish Narayan	90,620	40.57
	BJP	Dr. Harendra Prasad Singh	84,328	37.76
	BSP	Dr. Santosh Mishra	35,234	15.78
	Independent	Abhishek Singh (Sonu)	3,786	1.70
	Jan Adhikar Party	Brijesh Kumar	2,656	1.19
	INC	Lakshmi Nagar	2,235	1.00
		NOTA (None of the Above) + Rest of the candidates	~4,200	2.00
Majority			6,292
Turnout
	SBSP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Harendra Prasad Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Sachindra Nath Tripathi by a margin of 24,865 votes.^[4]