Ayodhya Assembly constituency

Ayodhya is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ayodhya in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 275 amongst 403 constituencies.

Ayodhya
Constituency No. 275 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictAyodhya
LS constituencyFaizabad
Total electors3,82,056
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2022

Bharatiya Janata Party member Ved Prakash Gupta is the incumbent MLA, who won in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Tej Narayan Pandey by a margin of 19,990 votes.[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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Year Member[3] Party
1967 B. Kishore Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969 Vishwanath Kapoor Indian National Congress
1974 Bed Prakash Agarwal Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977 Jai Shanker Pandey Janata Party
1980 Nirmal Kumar Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Surendra Pratap Singh Indian National Congress
1989 Jai Shanker Pandey Janata Dal
1991 Lallu Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996
2002
2007
2012 Tej Narayan Pandey Samajwadi Party
2017 Ved Prakash Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

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2022

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ayodhya[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ved Prakash Gupta 113,414 49.04  0.52
SP Tej Narayan Pandey 93,424 40.4  14.2
BSP Ravi Prakash 17,706 7.40  10.66
INC Reeta 2,011 0.87 N/A
NOTA None of the Above 1,240 0.84 N/A
Majority 19,990 8.64  14.56
Turnout 2,37,795
BJP hold Swing

2017

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2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ayodhya[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ved Prakash Gupta 107,014 49.56
SP Tej Narayan Pandey 56,574 26.20
BSP Mo Bazmi Siddeke 39,554 18.32
BMP Banshi Lal Yadav 5,661 2.62
AP Sushil Jaiswal 1,635 0.76
Majority 50,440 23.20
Turnout 2,17,642 62.01
BJP gain from SP Swing

References

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  1. ^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Assembly result 2022". Elections.in. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Ayodhya Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  4. ^ "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  5. ^ "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
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