Caimpiyarganj Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Caimpiyarganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Caimpiyarganj in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 320 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Caimpiyarganj | |
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| Constituency No. 320 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Gorakhpur |
| Total electors | 3,83,702 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Member of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist | |||
| 2012 | Fateh Bahadur Singh | Nationalist Congress Party | |
| 2017 | Bhartiya Janata Party | ||
| 2022 | |||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Fateh Bahadur Singh | 122,032 | 54.38 |  12.09 | |
| SP | Kajal Nishad | 79,376 | 35.37 | ||
| BSP | Chandra Prakash Nishad | 13,153 | 5.86 |  12.25 | |
| INC | Atal Bihari Singh | 2,592 | 1.16 | 25.96 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,155 | 0.51 | 0.33 | |
| Majority | 42,656 | 19.01 | 3.84 | ||
| Turnout | 224,393 | 58.48 | 1.02 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
The MLA is Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Fateh Bahadur Singh who won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Indian National Congress candidate Chinta Yadav by a margin of 32,854 votes.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Fateh Bahadur | 91,636 | 42.29 | ||
| INC | Chinta Yadav | 58,782 | 27.12 | ||
| BSP | Ananda Nishad | 39,243 | 18.11 | ||
| NISHAD | Mohammad Mainuddin | 10,935 | 5.05 | ||
| RLD | Gorakh Singh | 7,265 | 3.35 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,806 | 0.84 | ||
| Majority | 32,854 | 15.17 | |||
| Turnout | 216,710 | 59.5 | |||
| BJP gain from NCP | Swing | ||||