Azamgarh is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Azamgarh in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
| Azamgarh | |
| Constituency No: | 347 |
| Mla: | Durga Prasad Yadav |
| Party: | Samajwadi Party |
| Latest Election Year: | 2022 |
| State: | Uttar Pradesh |
| District: | Azamgarh |
| Reservation: | None |
| Type: | SLA |
Azamgarh is one of the 5 assembly constituencies in the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 347 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Scope=col | scope=col | Term | scope=col | Member of Legislative Assembly | scope=col | Party | scope=col | From | scope=col | To | scope=col | Days | scope=col | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Bisram | Praja Socialist Party | April 1957 | March 1962 | 1,800 | ||||||||||
| 02 | Bhima Prasad | March 1962 | March 1967 | 1,828 | |||||||||||
| 03 | Samyukta Socialist Party | March 1967 | April 1968 | 402 | [1] | ||||||||||
| 04 | February 1969 | March 1974 | 1,832 | [2] | |||||||||||
| 05 | Bisram | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | March 1974 | April 1977 | 1,153 | [3] | |||||||||
| 06 | Bhima Prasad | June 1977 | February 1980 | 969 | [4] | ||||||||||
| 07 | Ram Kunwar Singh | June 1980 | March 1985 | 1,735 | [5] | ||||||||||
| 08 | Durga Prasad Yadav | March 1985 | November 1989 | 1,725 | [6] | ||||||||||
| 09 | Janata Dal | December 1989 | April 1991 | 488 | [7] | ||||||||||
| 10 | 11th Vidhan Sabha | June 1991 | December 1992 | 533 | [8] | ||||||||||
| 11 | 12th Vidhan Sabha | Raj Bali Yadav | Bahujan Samaj Party | December 1993 | October 1995 | 693 | [9] | ||||||||
| 12 | Durga Prasad Yadav | October 1996 | March 2002 | 1,967 | [10] | ||||||||||
| 13 | February 2002 | May 2007 | 1,902 | [11] | |||||||||||
| 14 | May 2007 | March 2012 | 1,736 | [12] | |||||||||||
| 15 | March 2012 | March 2017 | 1,829 | [13] | |||||||||||
| 16 | 17th Vidhan Sabha | March 2017 | 2022 | [14] | |||||||||||
| 17 | 18th Vidhan Sabha | March 2022 | Incumbent | [15] | |||||||||||
Samajwadi Party candidate Durga Prasad Yadav won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Akhilesh by a margin of 26,262 votes.[16]