Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

Chitrakoot
Constituency No. 236 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictChitrakoot
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartySamajwadi Party
Elected year2022

Chitrakoot is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Chitrakoot in the Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Chitrakoot is one of five assembly constituencies in the Banda Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 236 amongst 403 constituencies.

This seat belongs to Samajwadi party candidate Anil Pradhan who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating BJP candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay by a margin of around 21,000 votes.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

# Term Name Party From To Days Comments Ref
1 16th Vidhan Sabha Veer Singh Samajwadi Party March 2012 March 2017 1,829 - [1]
2 17th Vidhan Sabha Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay Bharatiya Janata Party March 2017 March 2022 3032 [2]
3 18th Vidhan Sabha Anil Pradhan Samajwadi Party March 2022 Incumbent

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chitrakoot [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Anil Pradhan 104,771 43.23 14.55
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 83,895 34.62 6.23
BSP Pushpendra Singh 38,711 15.97 5.63
Jan Adhikar Party Avinash Chandra Tripathi 2,420 1.0
NOTA None of the above 3,290 1.36 0.24
Majority 20,876 8.61 3.56
Turnout 242,357 64.61 2.59
SP gain from BJP Swing


2017

2017 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 90,366 40.85
SP Veer Singh Patel 63,430 28.68
BSP Jagdish Prasad Gautam 47,780 21.6
CPI Amit Yadav 3,378 1.53
NISHAD Ugrasen 2,679 1.21
Jan Adhikar Manch Chhedilal 2,543 1.15
NOTA None of the above 3,529 1.6
Majority 26,936 12.17
Turnout 221,199 62.02
BJP gain from SP Swing 5.74


2012

2012 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Veer Singh Patel 65,267 35.78
BSP Ram Sevak 49,131 26.93
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 32,507 17.82
INC Pushpendra Singh 18,921 10.37
CPI Amit Yadav 4,291 2.35
Remainder 8 candidates 12,308 6.74
Majority 16,136 8.85
Turnout 1,82,425 60.55
SP win (new seat)


References

  1. ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Chitrakoot Assembly constituency Election Result". resultuniversity.com. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 25 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Rampur Maniharan Election Results 2017, Winner and Runner-up, Candidate list". elections.in. Retrieved 5 November 2018.

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