Vishwanathganj (Assembly Constituency)
Vishwanathganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Vishwanathganj in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Vishwanathganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 247 amongst 403 constituencies.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Raja Ram | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Rakesh Kumar Verma | Apna Dal | |
| 2022 | Jeet Lal Patel | ||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD(S) | Jeet Lal Patel | 86,829 | |||
| SP | Saurabh Singh | 38,777 | |||
| Independent | Sanjay Pandey | 23,000 | |||
| Jan Adhikar Party | Mohd Ashfaq | 20,271 | |||
| INC | Prashant Singh | 1,933 | |||
| AAP | Pankaj Pal | 1,484 | |||
| Majority | 48,052 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| AD(S) hold | Swing | ||||
2017
Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Rakesh Kumar Verma won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating INC candidate Sanjay Pandey by a margin of 23,358 votes.