Gauriganj | |
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Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | North India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Amethi |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Samajwadi Party |
Elected year | 2022 |
Gauriganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gauriganj in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. [1]
Gauriganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 185 amongst 403 constituencies. [1]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SP | Rakesh Pratap Singh | 79,040 | 38.96 | ||
BJP | Chandraprakash Mishra Matiyari | 72,077 | 35.53 | ||
INC | Fateh Bahadur | 28,964 | 14.28 | ||
BSP | Ramlakhan | 9,872 | 4.87 | ||
Jansatta Dal (L) | Chaudhary Nafees Ahamad | 7,056 | 3.48 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,920 | 0.95 | ||
Majority | 6,963 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
SP hold | Swing | ||||
Samajwadi Party candidate Rakesh Pratap Singh won in 2017 defeating Indian National Congress candidate Mohammad Nayem by a margin of 26,419 votes. [2] On 31 October 2021, Singh resigned from the 17th Uttar Pradesh Assembly citing "non-fulfilment of promises" by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government. [3]
Amethi is a city situated in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Gauriganj is the administrative headquarters of the Amethi district. This district is a part of Ayodhya division in the Awadh region of the state. Amethi was 72nd district of Uttar Pradesh which came into existence on 1 July 2010 by merging three tehsils of the erstwhile Sultanpur district namely Amethi, Gauriganj and Musafirkhana and two tehsils of the erstwhile Raebareli district, namely, Salon and Tiloi. The town is part of the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency and Amethi Assembly constituency, which became reputed as a stronghold of the Indian National Congress party. The Congress leaders belonging to Nehru-Gandhi family won several elections from Amethi during 1980–2014. In 2019, Smriti Irani of Bhartiya Janta Party won this seat.
Amethi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It covers the entirety of the Amethi district and was created in 1967. The seat is considered to be one of the bastions of the Indian National Congress (INC). Rahul Gandhi held the seat for the longest period, from 2004 to 2019, but lost to Smriti Irani, resulting in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seizing the prestigious seat from the scion of Congress. The seat has also been held previously by Rahul's mother, father and uncle.
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