| Chunar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 398 for theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Mirzapur |
| Total electors | 3,54,274 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2017 |
Chunar is a constituency of theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Chunar in theMirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Chunar is one of five assembly constituencies in theMirzapur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 398 amongst 403 constituencies. Current MLA from Chunar isAnurag Singh.
| Year | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Raj Kumar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1959^ | Onkar Nath | ||
| 1962 | Rajnarain Singh | ||
| 1967 | |||
| 1969 | Shiva Das | Samyukta Socialist Party | |
| 1974 | Om Prakash Singh | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1977 | Janata Party | ||
| 1980 | Yadunath Singh | Janata Party (Secular) | |
| 1985 | Lokdal | ||
| 1989 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1991 | |||
| 1993 | Om Prakash Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | |||
| 2012 | Jagtamba Patel | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Anurag Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Anurag Singh[2] | 110,980 | 50.26 |  1.5 | |
| AD(K) | Ramashankar Prasad Singh | 63,366 | 28.7 | ||
| BSP | Vijay Kumar Alias A.V.Bhaiya | 29,389 | 13.31 |  4.73 | |
| INC | Seema Devi | 4,164 | 1.89 | ||
| VIP | Amit Kumar Singh | 2,782 | 1.26 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,921 | 1.78 | 0.59 | |
| Majority | 47,614 | 21.56 | 7.17 | ||
| Turnout | 220,823 | 62.33 | 2.22 | ||
| BJPhold | Swing | ||||
Bharatiya Janta Party candidateAnurag Singh won in2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeatingSamajwadi Party candidateJagtamba Singh Patel by a margin of 62,228 votes.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Anurag Singh[4] | 105,608 | 48.76 | ||
| SP | Jagtamba Singh Patel | 43,380 | 20.03 | ||
| BSP | Anmol Singh | 39,067 | 18.04 | ||
| Independent | Ramraj Singh Patel | 17,009 | 7.85 | ||
| Independent | Sarvesh Kumar Singh Alias Raja Bhaiya | 3,898 | 1.8 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,541 | 1.19 | ||
| Majority | 62,228 | 28.73 | |||
| Turnout | 216,603 | 64.55 | |||
