Machhlishahr Assembly constituency explained

Machhlishahr
Mla:Ragini Sonkar
Party:Samajwadi Party
Latest Election Year:2022
State:Uttar Pradesh
District:Jaunpur
Reservation:SC
Type:SLA
Electors:4,02,078
Constituency No:369

Machhlishahr is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Machhlishahr in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Machhlishahr is one of five assembly constituencies in the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 369 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearMember[1] Party
1957Mohammed Rauf JafriIndian National Congress
1962Kesari PrasadPraja Socialist Party
1967Mohammed Rauf JafriIndian National Congress
1969Moti LalBharatiya Kranti Dal
1974Agha ZaidiIndian National Congress
1977Arun Kumar
1980Keshri PrasadIndian National Congress (I)
1985Indian National Congress
1989Jwala Prasad YadavJanata Dal
1991
1993
1996Samajwadi Party
2002Vinod Kumar SinghBahujan Samaj Party
2007Subhash Pandey
2012Jagdish SonkarSamajwadi Party
2017
2022Ragini Sonkar

Election results

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Jagdish Sonkar won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anita Rawat by a margin of 4,179 votes.[3]

External links

25.69°N 82.41°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Machhlishahr Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs . Elections in India.
  2. Web site: Uttar Pradesh-Machhlishahr . 15 March 2022 . Election Commission of India.
  3. Web site: Assembly result 2017. Elections.in. 2017-08-25.