Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency
| Chitrakoot | |
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| Constituency No. 236 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Chitrakoot |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Samajwadi Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
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 belonged to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Veer Singh by a margin of 26,936 votes.[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]| # | 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 | 2800 | [2] | |
| 3 | 18th Vidhan Sabha | Anil Pradhan | Samajwadi Party | March 2022 | Incumbent |
Election results
[edit]2022
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Anil Pradhan | 104,771 | 43.23 | ||
| BJP | Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay | 83,895 | 34.62 | ||
| BSP | Pushpendra Singh | 38,711 | 15.97 | ||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 3,290 | 1.36 | ||
| Jan Adhikar Party | Avinash Chandra Tripathi | 2,420 | 1.00 | ||
| CPI | Amit Yadav | 2,151 | 0.89 | ||
| INC | Nirmala | 2,148 | 0.89 | ||
| Rest of the candidates | ~5,000 | 2.00 | |||
| Majority | 20,876 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| SP gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
2017
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay | 90,366 | 41.52 |  23.70
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| SP | Veer Singh Patel | 63,430 | 29.14 |  6.64
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| BSP | Jagdish Prasad Gautam | 47,780 | 21.95 | 4.98
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| CPI | Amit Yadav | 3,378 | 1.55 | 0.80
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| NISHAD | Ugrasen | 2,679 | 1.23 | 
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| JAM | Chhedilal | 2,543 | 1.17 |
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| ABHM | Chandra Kishor Dwivedi | 1,746 | 0.80 |
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| RLD | Ashish Singh | 1,237 | 0.57 |
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| Independent | Shiva Kant Shastri | 1,186 | 0.54 |
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| BMP | Durgesh | 1,147 | 0.53 |
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| Independent | Satynarayan | 1,136 | 0.52 |
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| SWAJANPA | Chandan Singh | 1,042 | 0.48 |
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| None of the Above | None of the Above | 3,528 | 1.62 | New | |
| Majority | 26,936 | 12.38 | 3.53
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| Turnout | 2,21,230 | 62.03 | 1.48
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| BJP gain from SP | Swing | 5.74
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16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 Assembly Elections
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Veer Singh Patel | 65,267 | 35.78 |
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| BSP | Ram Sevak | 49,131 | 26.93 |
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| BJP | Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay | 32,507 | 17.82 |
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| INC | Pushpendra Singh | 18,921 | 10.37 |
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| CPI | Amit Yadav | 4,291 | 2.35 |
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| Remainder 8 candidates | 12,308 | 6.74 |
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| Majority | 16,136 | 8.85 |
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| Turnout | 1,82,425 | 60.55 |
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| SP win (new seat) | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Chitrakoot Assembly constituency Election Result". resultuniversity.com. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Rampur Maniharan Election Results 2017, Winner and Runner-up, Candidate list". elections.in. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
External links
[edit]- "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.