Bikapur Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Bikapur is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering Sohawal tehsil and the city of Bikapur in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] Bikapur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. As of 2022, its representative is Amit Singh Chauhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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| Constituency No. 274 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Ayodhya |
| Total electors | 3,80,107 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Akhand Pratap Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | Raj Bahadur Divedi | ||
| 1969 | Manwati Devi | ||
| 1974 | Sita Ram Nishad | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | |
| 1977 | Sant Shriram Dwivedi | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Sitaram Nishad | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1989 | Sant Shriram Dwivedi | Independent | |
| 1991 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 1993 | Parshuram | Samajwadi Party | |
| 1996 | Sitaram Nishad | ||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | Jitendra Kumar Singh | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2012 | Mitrasen Yadav | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2016^ | Anand Sen Yadav | ||
| 2017 | Shobha Singh Chauhan | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | Amit Singh Chauhan | ||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Amit Singh Chauhan | 107,268 | 44.34 |  2.14 | |
| SP | Firoz Khan Urf Gabbar[6] | 101,708 | 42.04 | 11.79 | |
| BSP | Sunil Pathak | 21,385 | 8.84 |  13.45 | |
| INC | Akhilesh Yadav | 4,394 | 1.82 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,382 | 0.57 | 0.45 | |
| Majority | 5,560 | 2.3 | 9.65 | ||
| Turnout | 241,937 | 63.65 | 1.95 | ||
| BJP gain from | Swing | ||||
2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Shobha Singh Chauhan | 94,074 | 42.2 | ||
| SP | Anand Sen | 67,422 | 30.25 | ||
| BSP | Jitendra Singh | 49,690 | 22.29 | ||
| AIMIM | Juver Ahmad | 3,275 | 1.47 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,257 | 1.02 | ||
| Majority | 26,652 | 11.95 | |||
| Turnout | 222,916 | 61.7 | |||