| Machhlishahr | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 369 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
 | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Jaunpur |
| Total electors | 4,02,078 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Samajwadi Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Machhlishahr is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Machhlishahr in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Machhlishahr is one of five assembly constituencies in the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 369 amongst 403 constituencies.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]| Year | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Mohammed Rauf Jafri | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Kesari Prasad | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1967 | Mohammed Rauf Jafri | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Moti Lal | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | |
| 1974 | Agha Zaidi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Arun Kumar | ||
| 1980 | Keshri Prasad | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1989 | Jwala Prasad Yadav | Janata Dal | |
| 1991 | |||
| 1993 | |||
| 1996 | Samajwadi Party | ||
| 2002 | Vinod Kumar Singh | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2007 | Subhash Pandey | ||
| 2012 | Jagdish Sonkar | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | |||
| 2022 | Ragini Sonkar | ||
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Dr. Ragini Sonkar [3] | 91,659 | 41.99 |  7.26
| |
| BJP | Mihilal Gautam | 83,175 | 38.10 | 5.37
| |
| BSP | Vijay Kumar | 35,059 | 16.06 |  9.28
| |
| INC | Mala Devi Sonkar | 2,178 | 1.00 | ||
| NOTA (None of the Above) + Rest of the candidates | ~6,000 | 3.00 | |||
| Majority | 8,484 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| SP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
[edit]Samajwadi Party candidate Jagdish Sonkar won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anita Rawat by a margin of 4,179 votes.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Jagdish Sonkar | 72,368 | 35.10 | − | |
| BJP | Anita Rawat | 68,189 | 33.07 | − | |
| BSP | Sushila Saroj | 52,796 | 25.61 | − | |
| NISHAD | Ram Sevak | 4,484 | 2.17 | − | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,165 | 1.05 | ||
| Remainder 10 candidates | 8,342 | 4 | − | ||
| Majority | 4,179 | 2.01 | − | ||
| Turnout | 2,08,344 | 57.06 | − | ||
| SP hold | Swing | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Machhlishahr Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh-Machhlishahr". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ^ "Samajwadi party UP list, 10 February 2022". twitter. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
External links
[edit]- "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.