Machhlishahr is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Machhlishahr in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
| Machhlishahr | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 369 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| 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 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
edit2022
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
editSamajwadi 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.