| Machhlishahr | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 369 for theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Jaunpur |
| Total electors | 4,02,078 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Samajwadi Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Machhlishahr is a constituency of theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Machhlishahr in theJaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Machhlishahr is one of five assembly constituencies in theMachhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 369 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Year | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Mohammed Rauf Jafri | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Kesari Prasad | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1967 | Mohammed Rauf Jafri | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Moti Lal | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | |
| 1974 | Agha Zaidi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Arun Kumar | ||
| 1980 | Keshri Prasad | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1989 | Jwala Prasad Yadav | Janata Dal | |
| 1991 | |||
| 1993 | |||
| 1996 | Samajwadi Party | ||
| 2002 | Vinod Kumar Singh | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2007 | Subhash Pandey | ||
| 2012 | Jagdish Sonkar | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | |||
| 2022 | Ragini Sonkar | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Dr. Ragini Sonkar[3] | 91,659 | 41.99 |  7.26 | |
| BJP | Mihilal Gautam | 83,175 | 38.1 | 5.37 | |
| BSP | Vijay Kumar | 35,059 | 16.06 |  9.28 | |
| INC | Mala Devi Sonkar | 2,178 | 1.0 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,198 | 0.55 | 0.5 | |
| Majority | 8,484 | 3.89 | 1.89 | ||
| Turnout | 218,312 | 54.3 | 2.76 | ||
| SPhold | Swing | ||||
Samajwadi Party candidateJagdish Sonkar won in2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeatingBharatiya Janta Party candidate Anita Rawat by a margin of 4,179 votes.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Jagdish Sonkar | 72,368 | 34.73 | ||
| BJP | Anita Rawat | 68,189 | 32.73 | ||
| BSP | Sushila Saroj | 52,796 | 25.34 | ||
| NISHAD | Ram Sevak | 4,484 | 2.15 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,165 | 1.05 | ||
| Majority | 4,179 | 2.0 | |||
| Turnout | 208,344 | 57.06 | |||
| SPhold | Swing | ||||