Kursi Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Kursi is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kursi in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Barabanki Lok Sabha constituency.[1] Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 266 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Kursi | |
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| Constituency No. 266 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Barabanki |
| Total electors | 3,95,071 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Fareed Mahfooj Kidwai[2] | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017[3] | Sakendra Pratap Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022[4] | |||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sakendra Pratap Verma | 118,720 | 41.15 | −0.11 | |
| SP | Rakesh Kumar Verma | 118,503 | 41.07 | +10.73 | |
| BSP | Meeta Gautam | 35,561 | 12.33 | −7.12 | |
| AIMIM | Kumail Asharaf Khan | 8,541 | 2.96 | ||
| INC | Shrimati Urmila Patel | 2,803 | 0.97 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,723 | 0.6 | +0.04 | |
| Majority | 217 | 0.08 | −10.84 | ||
| Turnout | 288,519 | 73.03 | +2.9 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sakendra Pratap Verma won the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai by a margin of 28,679 votes.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sakendra Pratap Verma | 108,403 | 41.26 | ||
| SP | Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai | 79,724 | 30.34 | ||
| BSP | V.P.Singh Verma | 51,091 | 19.45 | ||
| PECP | Sarvar Ali | 8,329 | 3.17 | ||
| Independent | Ch.Talib Najib Kokab | 4,381 | 1.67 | ||
| RLD | Amar Singh | 2,445 | 0.93 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,460 | 0.56 | ||
| Majority | 28,679 | 10.92 | |||
| Turnout | 262,731 | 70.13 | |||