Allahabad North Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Allahabad North is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the city of Prayagraj of Uttar Pradesh, India.
| Allahabad North | |
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| Constituency No. 262 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Prayagraj |
| Total electors | 4,13,478 (2018) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
| Preceded by | Anugrah Narayan Singh |
Allahabad North is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 262 amongst 403 constituencies.
Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Harshvardhan Bajpai who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Anugrah Narayan Singh by a margin of 35,025 votes.[1]
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Kailash Narain Gupta | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Rajendra Kumari Bajpai | ||
| 1967 | |||
| 1969 | |||
| 1974 | |||
| 1977 | Baba Ram Adhar Yadav | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Ashok Kumar Bajpai | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Anugrah Narayan Singh | Lokdal | |
| 1989 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1991 | Narendra Kumar Singh Gaur | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1993 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | Anugrah Narayan Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 2012 | |||
| 2017 | Harshvardhan Bajpai | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Harshvardhan Bajpai | 96,890 | 55.07 |  3.59 | |
| SP | Sandeep Yadav | 42,007 | 23.88 | ||
| INC | Anugrah Narayan Singh | 23,571 | 13.4 |  17.87 | |
| BSP | Sanjay Goswami | 9,614 | 5.46 | 8.04 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 919 | 0.52 | 0.14 | |
| Majority | 54,883 | 31.19 | 10.98 | ||
| Turnout | 175,941 | 39.77 | 2.13 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Harshvardhan Bajpai | 89,191 | 51.48 | ||
| INC | Anugrah Narayan Singh | 54,166 | 31.27 | ||
| BSP | Amit Srivastava | 23,388 | 13.5 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 659 | 0.38 | ||
| Majority | 35,025 | 20.21 | |||
| Turnout | 173,242 | 41.9 | |||
| BJP gain from INC | Swing | ||||