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.
Scope=col | scope=col | Term | scope=col | Name | scope=col | Party | scope=col | From | scope=col | To | scope=col | Days | |
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01 | Ram Swarup Vishard | May 1952 | March 1957 | 1,776 | |||||||||
02 | Duryodhan | April 1957 | July 1957 | ||||||||||
03 | Amar Nath | July 1957 | March 1962 | ||||||||||
04 | Duryodhan | Socialist Party (India) | March 1962 | March 1967 | 1,828 | ||||||||
05 | Indian National Congress | March 1967 | April 1968 | 402 | |||||||||
06 | Hansa | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | February 1969 | March 1974 | 1,832 | ||||||||
07 | Duryodhan | Indian National Congress | March 1974 | April 1977 | 1,153 | ||||||||
08 | Dukhi Prasad | Independent | June 1977 | February 1980 | 969 | ||||||||
09 | Phirangi Prasad Visharad | Janata Party | June 1980 | March 1985 | 1,735 | ||||||||
10 | Ram Lakshan | March 1985 | November 1989 | 1,725 | |||||||||
11 | Keshav Prasad | December 1989 | April 1991 | 488 | |||||||||
12 | 11th Vidhan Sabha | Ram Payre (Azad) | Bharatiya Janata Party | June 1991 | December 1992 | 533 | |||||||
13 | 12th Vidhan Sabha | Chandra Kishor | December 1993 | October 1995 | 693 | ||||||||
14 | October 1996 | March 2002 | 1,967 | ||||||||||
15 | February 2002 | May 2007 | 1,902 | ||||||||||
16 | Sripati | May 2007 | March 2012 | 1,762 | |||||||||
17 | Sudama | March 2012 | March 2017 | 1,829 | |||||||||
18 | Jai Mangal Kanojiya[1] | March 2017 | Incumbent | ||||||||||
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]