Maharajganj | |
State: | Uttar Pradesh |
District: | Maharajganj |
Reservation: | SC |
Electors: | (in 2017) |
Type: | SLA |
Constituency No: | 318 |
Mla: | Jai Mangal Kanojiya |
Party: | Bharatiya Janta Party |
Latest Election Year: | 2022 |
Maharajganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Maharajganj in the Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Maharajganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Maharajganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 318 amongst 403 constituencies.
Year | Member[1] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1952 | Ram Swaroop Mishra | Indian National Congress | |
Rameshwar Prasad | |||
1957 | Amarnath Mishra | Independent | |
Duryodhan | |||
1962 | Duryodhan | Socialist Party (India) | |
1967 | Indian National Congress | ||
1969 | Hansraj | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | |
1974 | Duryodhan | Indian National Congress | |
1977 | Dukkhi Prasad | Independent | |
1980 | Firangi Prasad Visharad | Janata Party (Secular) | |
1985 | Ram Lakshan | Indian National Congress | |
1989 | Keshav Prasad | Janata Dal | |
1991 | Ram Pyare Azad | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1993 | Chandra Kishor | ||
1996 | |||
2002 | |||
2007 | Sripati Azad | Samajwadi Party | |
2012 | Sudama Prasad | ||
2017 | Jai Mangal Kanojiya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2022 |
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Jai Mangal Kanojiya won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Nirmesh Mangal by a margin of 68,361 votes.[2] [3]