Ghazipur Sadar Assembly Constituency
Ghazipur Sadar is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ghazipur Sadar in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ghazipur Sadar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 375 amongst 403 constituencies.
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Jai Kishan Sahu | 92,472 | 40.81 | ||
| BJP | Smt. Sangeeta Balwant Bind | 90,780 | 40.06 | ||
| BSP | Dr. Raj Kumar Singh Gautam | 33,931 | 14.97 | ||
| AIMIM | Md. Sad Adil | 1,260 | 0.56 | ||
| INC | Looton Ram Nishad | 1,234 | 0.54 | ||
| Rest of the candidates | ~6,500 | 2.80 | |||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 421 | 0.19 | ||
| Majority | 1,692 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| SP gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
2017
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sangeeta Balwant won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Rajesh Kushwaha by a margin of 32,607 votes.
Members of Legislative Assembly
- 1957: Pabbar Ram, Communist Party of India
- 1962: Krishnanand Rai, Indian National Congress
- 1967: Pabbar Ram, Communist Party of India
- 1969: Ram Surat Singh, Indian National Congress
- 1974: Shah Abdul Faiz, Bharatiya Kranti Dal
- 1977: Mohd. Khalilullan Kuraishi, Janata Party
- 1980: Ram Narain, Janata Party (Secular) - Charan Singh
- 1985: Amitabh Anil Dubey, Indian National Congress
- 1989: Khursheed, Independent
- 1991: Udai Pratap, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1996: Rajendra, Communist Party of India
- 2002: Umashanker, Bahujan Samaj Party
- 2007: Saiyyada Shadab Fatima, Samajwadi Party
- 2012: Vijay Kumar Mishra, Samajwadi Party
- 2017: Sangeeta Balwant, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 2022: Jai Kishan Sahu, Samajwadi Party