| Kursi | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 266 for theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Barabanki |
| Total electors | 3,95,071 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Kursi is a constituency of theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kursi in theBarabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in theBarabanki Lok Sabha constituency.[1] Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 266 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Fareed Mahfooj Kidwai[2] | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017[3] | Sakendra Pratap Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022[4] | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sakendra Pratap Verma | 118,720 | 41.15 | −0.11 | |
| SP | Rakesh Kumar Verma | 118,503 | 41.07 | +10.73 | |
| BSP | Meeta Gautam | 35,561 | 12.33 | −7.12 | |
| AIMIM | Kumail Asharaf Khan | 8,541 | 2.96 | ||
| INC | Shrimati Urmila Patel | 2,803 | 0.97 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,723 | 0.6 | +0.04 | |
| Majority | 217 | 0.08 | −10.84 | ||
| Turnout | 288,519 | 73.03 | +2.9 | ||
| BJPhold | Swing | ||||
Bharatiya Janta Party candidateSakendra Pratap Verma won the2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeatingSamajwadi Party candidateFareed Mahfooz Kidwai by a margin of 28,679 votes.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sakendra Pratap Verma | 108,403 | 41.26 | ||
| SP | Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai | 79,724 | 30.34 | ||
| BSP | V.P.Singh Verma | 51,091 | 19.45 | ||
| PECP | Sarvar Ali | 8,329 | 3.17 | ||
| Independent | Ch.Talib Najib Kokab | 4,381 | 1.67 | ||
| RLD | Amar Singh | 2,445 | 0.93 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,460 | 0.56 | ||
| Majority | 28,679 | 10.92 | |||
| Turnout | 262,731 | 70.13 | |||