Machhlishahr
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictJaunpur
ReservationSC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartySamajwadi Party
Elected year2022

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

# Term Member of Legislative Assembly Party From To Days Comment
012nd Vidhan SabhaMohd Rauf JafriIndian National CongressApril 1957March 19621,800
023rd Vidhan SabhaKesari PrasadPraja Socialist PartyMarch 1962March 19671,828
034th Vidhan SabhaMohd Rauf JafriIndian National CongressMarch 1967April 1968402
045th Vidhan SabhaMoti LalBharatiya Kranti DalFebruary 1969March 19741,832
056th Vidhan SabhaAgha ZaidiIndian National CongressMarch 1974April 19771,153
067th Vidhan SabhaArun KumarJune 1977February 1980969
0708th Vidhan SabhaKeshri PrasadIndian National Congress (Indira)June 1980March 19851,735
089th Vidhan SabhaIndian National CongressMarch 1985November 19891,725
0910th Vidhan SabhaJwala Prasad YadavJanata DalDecember 1989April 1991488[1]
1011th Vidhan SabhaJune 1991December 1992533
1112th Vidhan SabhaDecember 1993October 1995693
1213th Vidhan SabhaSamajwadi PartyOctober 1996March 20021,967[1]
1314th Vidhan SabhaVinod Kumar SinghBahujan Samaj PartyFebruary 2002May 20071,902
1415th Vidhan SabhaSubhash PandeyMay 2007March 20121,762[1]
1516th Vidhan SabhaJagdish SonkarSamajwadi PartyMarch 2012March 20171,829[1]
1617th Vidhan SabhaMarch 2017March 20221,817[1]
1718th Vidhan SabhaRagini SonkarMarch 2022Incumbent674[2]

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Machhlishahr
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Dr. Ragini Sonkar [3] 91,659 41.99 Increase7.26
BJP Mihilal Gautam 83,175 38.10 Increase5.37
BSP Vijay Kumar 35,059 16.06 Decrease9.28
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

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.[1]

2017 General Elections: Machhlishahr[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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. "Uttar Pradesh-Machhlishahr". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  3. "Samajwadi party UP list, 10 February 2022". twitter. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  4. "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2018.

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