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.
Year | Member[1] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1957 | Mohammed Rauf Jafri | Indian National Congress | |
1962 | Kesari Prasad | Praja Socialist Party | |
1967 | Mohammed Rauf Jafri | Indian National Congress | |
1969 | Moti Lal | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | |
1974 | Agha Zaidi | Indian National Congress | |
1977 | Arun Kumar | ||
1980 | Keshri Prasad | Indian National Congress (I) | |
1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
1989 | Jwala Prasad Yadav | Janata Dal | |
1991 | |||
1993 | |||
1996 | Samajwadi Party | ||
2002 | Vinod Kumar Singh | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
2007 | Subhash Pandey | ||
2012 | Jagdish Sonkar | Samajwadi Party | |
2017 | |||
2022 | Ragini Sonkar |
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]