Pharenda Assembly constituency explained

Pharenda
Mla:Virendra Chaudhary
Party:Indian National Congress
Latest Election Year:2022
State:Uttar Pradesh
District:Maharajganj
Reservation:None
Electors:211490
Type:SLA
Constituency No:315

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

Pharenda is one of five assembly constituencies in the Maharajganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 315 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

YearMember[1] Party
1951Gauri RamIndian National Congress
1967Independent
1969Pyari Indian National Congress
1974Lakshmi NarayanCommunist Party of India
1977Shyam Narayan Tiwari
1980Independent
1985Harshwardhan SinghJanata Party
1989Shyam Narayan TiwariIndian National Congress
1991
1993Shivendra SinghBharatiya Janata Party
1996Vinod ManiCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
2002Syed Arshad AbdullahIndian National Congress
2007Bajrang Bahadur SinghBharatiya Janata Party
2012
2015^Vinod TiwariSamajwadi Party
2017Bajrang Bahadur SinghBharatiya Janata Party
2022Virendra ChaudharyIndian National Congress

Election results

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Bajrang Bahadur Singh won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Virendra Chaudhary by a margin of 2,354 votes.[2]

2015[3]

External links

27.1°N 83.27°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pharenda Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs . Elections in India.
  2. Web site: Assembly result 2017. Elections.in. 2017-08-25.
  3. News: 2015-05-03 . SP wins Pharenda Assembly seat in bypoll . 2020-06-07 . Business Standard India . Press Trust of India.