Prayagraj North Assembly Constituency
Allahabad North is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the city of Prayagraj of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Allahabad North is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 262 amongst 403 constituencies.
Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Harshvardhan Bajpai who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Anugrah Narayan Singh by a margin of 35,025 votes.
Overview
The constituency has a preponderance of voters belonging to Brahmin and Kayastha in population, in this constituency.
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Kailash Narain Gupta | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Rajendra Kumari Bajpai | ||
| 1967 | |||
| 1969 | |||
| 1974 | |||
| 1977 | Baba Ram Adhar Yadav | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Ashok Kumar Bajpai | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Anugrah Narayan Singh | Lokdal | |
| 1989 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1991 | Narendra Kumar Singh Gaur | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1993 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | Anugrah Narayan Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 2012 | |||
| 2017 | Harshvardhan Bajpai | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Harshvardhan Bajpai | 96,890 | 55.07 |  3.59
| |
| SP | Sandeep Yadav | 42,007 | 23.88 | ||
| INC | Anugrah Narayan Singh | 23,571 | 13.4 |  17.87
| |
| BSP | Sanjay Goswami | 9,614 | 5.46 | 8.04
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 919 | 0.52 | 0.14
| |
| Majority | 54,883 | 31.19 | 10.98
| ||
| Turnout | 175,941 | 39.77 | 2.13
| ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Harshvardhan Bajpai | 89,191 | 51.48 | ||
| INC | Anugrah Narayan Singh | 54,166 | 31.27 | ||
| BSP | Amit Srivastava | 23,388 | 13.5 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 659 | 0.38 | ||
| Majority | 35,025 | 20.21 | |||
| Turnout | 173,242 | 41.9 | |||
| BJP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
References
- ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ^ "Allahabad North Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "2022 Election Results". Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
External links
- "Election results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.