Sarojini Nagar Assembly constituency
Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Sarojini Nagar is one of the 403 assembly constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the area of Sarojini Nagar in the Lucknow district. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency.
| Sarojini Nagar | |
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| Constituency No. 170 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Lucknow |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Mohanlalganj |
| Total electors | 5,67,252 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 170 amongst 403 constituencies.
In 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rajeshwar Singh won the elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Abhishek Mishra by the margin of 56,186 votes. He is an ex-ED Joint Director IPS officer who has taken VRS from the service to contest the elections.[1]
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Vijay Kumar Tripathi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Chandra Bhanu Gupta | ||
| 1974 | Vijay Kumar Tripathi | ||
| 1977 | Chheda Singh Chauhan | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Vijay Kumar Tripathi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1985 | Sharda Pratap Shukla | Independent | |
| 1989 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1991 | Vijay Kumar Tripathi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1993 | Shyam Kishore Yadav | Samajwadi Party | |
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | Mohammad Irshad Khan | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2007 | |||
| 2012 | Sharda Pratap Shukla | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Swati Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | Rajeshwar Singh | ||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Rajeshwar Singh | 160,626 | 49.07 | +11.76 | |
| SP | Abhishek Mishra | 104,440 | 31.9 | +6.34 | |
| BSP | Mohd. Jaleesh Khan | 33,356 | 10.19 | −14.49 | |
| INC | Rudra Daman Singh | 19,711 | 6.02 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,822 | 0.56 | −0.11 | |
| Majority | 56,186 | 17.17 | +5.42 | ||
| Turnout | 327,373 | 57.71 | −0.63 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Swati Singh | 108,506 | 37.31 | ||
| SP | Anurag Alias Anurag Yadav | 74,327 | 25.56 | ||
| BSP | Shiv Shankar Singh Alias Shankari Singh | 71,791 | 24.68 | ||
| Independent | Rudra Daman Singh | 20,607 | 7.09 | ||
| RLD | Sharda Pratap Shukla | 4,489 | 1.54 | ||
| Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj Party | Kamlesh Kumar | 3,378 | 1.16 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,926 | 0.67 | ||
| Majority | 34,179 | 11.75 | |||
| Turnout | 290,847 | 58.34 | |||
2012
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP | Sharda Pratap Shukla | 67,601 | 28.88 | ||
| BSP | Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari) | 59,236 | 25.30 | ||
| RSBP | Rudra Daman Singh | 41,386 | 17.68 | ||
| BJP | Virendra Kumar Tiwari | 29,510 | 12.61 | ||
| INC | Gaurav Choudhry | 22,003 | 9.40 | ||
| AD(K) | Sher Bahadur Singh (Shera) | 2,581 | 1.10 | ||
| Majority | 8,365 | 3.58 | |||
| Turnout | 2,34,090 | 59.17 | |||
| SP gain from Bahujan Samaj party (mayawati) | Swing | ||||
2007
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSP | Mohammad Irshad Khan | 65,736 | 36.99 | ||
| SP | Shyam Kishore Yadav | 60,312 | 33.93 | ||
| BJP | Virendra Kumar Tiwari | 21,364 | 12.02 | ||
| INC | Ajay Kumar Tripathi | 10,487 | 5.90 | ||
| JM | Lalloo Yadav | 3,434 | 1.93 | ||
| RSBP | Bachan Singh Yadav | 1,952 | 1.10 | ||
| Majority | 5,424 | 3.06 | |||
| Turnout | 1,77,723 | 43.56 | |||
| BSP hold | Swing | ||||