Chunar Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Chunar is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Chunar in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
| Chunar | |
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| Constituency No. 398 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Mirzapur |
| Total electors | 3,54,274 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2017 |
Chunar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 398 amongst 403 constituencies. Current MLA from Chunar is Anurag Singh.
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Raj Kumar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1959^ | Onkar Nath | ||
| 1962 | Rajnarain Singh | ||
| 1967 | |||
| 1969 | Shiva Das | Samyukta Socialist Party | |
| 1974 | Om Prakash Singh | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1977 | Janata Party | ||
| 1980 | Yadunath Singh | Janata Party (Secular) | |
| 1985 | Lokdal | ||
| 1989 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1991 | |||
| 1993 | Om Prakash Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | |||
| 2012 | Jagtamba Patel | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Anurag Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Anurag Singh[2] | 110,980 | 50.26 |  1.5 | |
| AD(K) | Ramashankar Prasad Singh | 63,366 | 28.7 | ||
| BSP | Vijay Kumar Alias A.V.Bhaiya | 29,389 | 13.31 |  4.73 | |
| INC | Seema Devi | 4,164 | 1.89 | ||
| VIP | Amit Kumar Singh | 2,782 | 1.26 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,921 | 1.78 | 0.59 | |
| Majority | 47,614 | 21.56 | 7.17 | ||
| Turnout | 220,823 | 62.33 | 2.22 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anurag Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Jagtamba Singh Patel by a margin of 62,228 votes.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Anurag Singh[4] | 105,608 | 48.76 | ||
| SP | Jagtamba Singh Patel | 43,380 | 20.03 | ||
| BSP | Anmol Singh | 39,067 | 18.04 | ||
| Independent | Ramraj Singh Patel | 17,009 | 7.85 | ||
| Independent | Sarvesh Kumar Singh Alias Raja Bhaiya | 3,898 | 1.8 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,541 | 1.19 | ||
| Majority | 62,228 | 28.73 | |||
| Turnout | 216,603 | 64.55 | |||