| Sahajanwa | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 324 for theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Gorakhpur |
| Total electors | 3,79,627 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Sahajanwa is a constituency of theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Sahajanwa in theGorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh,India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in theGorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 324 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Year | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Ram Karan | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1974 | Sharda Prasad Rawat | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | |
| 1977 | Janata Party | ||
| 1980 | Kishori Shukla | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Triyugi Narain Mishra | Indian National Congress | |
| 1989 | Sharda Prasad Rawat | Janata Dal | |
| 1991 | Tarkeshwar Prasad Shukla | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1993 | Prabha Rawat | Samajwadi Party | |
| 1996 | Tarkeshwar Prasad Shukla | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2002 | Dev Narayan Singh | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2007 | Yashpal Singh Ravat | Independent | |
| 2012 | Rajendra | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2017 | Sheetal Pandey | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | Pradeep Shukla | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Pradeep Shukla | 105,981 | 47.21 |  12.72 | |
| SP | Yashpal Singh Rawat | 62,575 | 27.87 | 0.73 | |
| BSP | Sudhir Singh | 43,905 | 19.56 |  6.3 | |
| INC | Manoj Yadav | 3,338 | 1.49 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,604 | 0.71 | 0.12 | |
| Majority | 43,406 | 19.34 | 11.99 | ||
| Turnout | 224,489 | 59.13 | 0.34 | ||
| BJPhold | Swing | ||||
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sheetal Pandey won in the2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeatingSamajwadi Party candidate Yaspal Singh Rawat by a margin of 15,377 votes.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sheetal Pandey | 72,213 | 34.49 | ||
| SP | Yaspal Singh Rawat | 56,836 | 27.14 | ||
| BSP | Devnarayan Singh Urf G.M. Singh | 54,143 | 25.86 | ||
| NISHAD | Shivaji Singh | 15,780 | 7.54 | ||
| Shoshit Samaj Dal | Asha Nishad | 2,024 | 0.97 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,723 | 0.83 | ||
| Majority | 15,377 | 7.35 | |||
| Turnout | 209,383 | 58.79 | |||