Banda, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Banda is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Banda in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] Banda is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lok Sabha constituency of Banda. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 235 amongst 403 constituencies.[2]
| Banda | |
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| Constituency No. 235 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Banda |
| Total electors | 3,10,282 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
| Preceded by | Vivek Kumar Singh |
Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Prakash Dwivedi who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Madhusudan Kushwaha by a margin of 32,828 votes.[3]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Elected year | MLA[4] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Pahalwan Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Brij Mohan Lal Gupta | ||
| 1967 | G. S. Saraf | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1969 | Mahiraj Dhwaj Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1974 | Jamuna Prasad Bose | Socialist Party | |
| 1977 | Janata Party | ||
| 1980 | Chandra Prakash Sharma | Indian National Congress (Indira) | |
| 1985 | Jamuna Prasad Bose | Janata Party | |
| 1989 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1991 | Nasimuddin Siddiqui | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 1993 | Raj Kumar Shivhare | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1996 | Vivek Kumar Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 2002 | Babu Lal Kushwaha | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2007 | Vivek Kumar Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 2012 | |||
| 2017[5] | Prakash Dwivedi | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Prakash Dwivedi | 81,557 | 41.34 | −4.27 | |
| SP | Manjula Singh | 66,343 | 33.63 | ||
| BSP | Dheeraj Prakash | 38,284 | 19.4 | −8.21 | |
| Jan Adhikar Party | Hanuman Das | 3,776 | 1.91 | +1.31 | |
| INC | Laxminarayan | 1,894 | 0.96 | −16.71 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,991 | 1.01 | +0.47 | |
| Majority | 15,214 | 7.71 | −10.29 | ||
| Turnout | 197,300 | 63.59 | +3.65 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Prakash Dwivedi | 83,169 | 45.61 | ||
| BSP | Madhusudan Kushwaha | 50,341 | 27.61 | ||
| INC | Vivek Kumar Singh | 32,223 | 17.67 | ||
| Independent | Mohd. Aslam | 2,736 | 1.5 | ||
| CPI | Shyam Sunder Singh | 1,953 | 1.07 | ||
| Sarv Sambhaav Party | Vimal Krishan | 1,642 | 0.9 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 979 | 0.54 | ||
| Majority | 32,828 | 18.0 | |||
| Turnout | 182,334 | 59.94 | |||