| Shahganj | |
| Mla: | Ramesh Singh |
| Party: | NISHAD Party |
| Latest Election Year: | 2022 |
| State: | Uttar Pradesh |
| District: | Jaunpur |
| Reservation: | None |
| Type: | SLA |
| Electors: | 4,07,439 |
| Constituency No: | 365 |
Shahganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Shahganj in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1]
Shahganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 365 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Year | Member[2] | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Lakshmi Shankar Yadav | Indian National Congress | ||
| Babu Nandan | ||||
| 1957 | Kunwar Sripal | Independent | ||
| Mata Prasad | Indian National Congress | |||
| 1962 | Lakshmi Shankar Yadav | |||
| 1967 | Mata Prasad | |||
| 1969 | ||||
| 1974 | ||||
| 1977 | Chhotey Lal | Janata Party | ||
| 1980 | Pahlwan | Indian National Congress (I) | ||
| 1985 | Deep Chand Sonkar | Lokdal | ||
| 1989 | Janata Dal | |||
| 1991 | Ram Paras Rajak | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 1993 | Ram Dawar | Bahujan Samaj Party | ||
| 1996 | Bankey Lal Sonkar | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 2002 | Jagdish Sonkar | Samajwadi Party | ||
| 2007 | ||||
| 2012 | Shailendra Yadav Lalai | |||
| 2017 | ||||
| 2022 | Ramesh Singh | NISHAD Party | ||
Samajwadi Party candidate Shailendra Yadav Lalai, won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party candidate Rana Ajeet Pratap Singh by a margin of 9,162 votes.[3] [4] [5]