Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

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

Chitrakoot
Constituency 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
Anil Kumar Anil Pradhan
PartySamajwadi Party
Elected year2022

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 2608 [2]
3 18th Vidhan Sabha Anil Kumar Anil Pradhan Samajwadi Party March 2022 Incumbent

Election results edit

2022 edit

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chitrakoot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Anil Pradhan Patel 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

2017 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 90,366 41.52  23.70
SP Veer Singh Patel 63,430 29.14  6.64
BSP Jagdish Prasad Gautam 47,780 21.95  4.98
CPI Amit Yadav 3,378 1.55  0.80
NISHAD Ugrasen 2,679 1.23  
JAM Chhedilal 2,543 1.17  
ABHM Chandra Kishor Dwivedi 1,746 0.80  
RLD Ashish Singh 1,237 0.57  
Independent Shiva Kant Shastri 1,186 0.54  
BMP Durgesh 1,147 0.53  
Independent Satynarayan 1,136 0.52  
SWAJANPA Chandan Singh 1,042 0.48  
None of the Above None of the Above 3,528 1.62 New
Majority 26,936 12.38  3.53
Turnout 2,21,230 62.03  1.48
BJP gain from SP Swing  5.74

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 Assembly Elections edit

2012 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot[3]
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 edit

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

External links edit

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