Dhanghata Assembly constituency
| Dhanghata | |
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| Constituency No. 314 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Sant Kabir Nagar |
| Total electors | 357,096 (2017) |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Dhanghata is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Dhanghata in the Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 314 amongst 403 constituencies.
Since 2017, Bharatiya Janta Party member Sriram Chauhan is the MLA, who won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Agloo Prasad by a margin of 16,909 votes.[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]| Year | Member[2] | Party | |
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Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
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| 2012 | Alagoo Prasad Chauhan | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Sriram Chauhan | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | Ganesh Chandra Chauhan | ||
Election results
[edit]18th Vidhan Sabha: 2022 General Elections
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| BJP | Ganeh Chandra | 83241 | 38.5 | ||
| SBSP | Alagu Prasad | 72688 | 33.62 | ||
| BSP | Santosh | 40693 | 18.82 | ||
| NOTA | None Of The Above | 1,915 | 0.89 | ||
| Remainder 9 candidates | 17685 | 8.17 | 
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| Majority | 10,553 | ||||
| Turnout | 2,16,222 | ||||
| BJP gain from SBSP | Swing | ||||
17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 General Elections
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sriram Chauhan | 79,572 | 40.11 | ||
| SP | Algoo Prasad Chauhan | 62,663 | 31.58 | ||
| BSP | Neel Mani | 51,938 | 26.18 | ||
| NOTA | None Of The Above | 1,871 | 0.94 |  0.94
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| Remainder 5 candidates | 4,231 | 2.11 |
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| Majority | 16,909 | 8.44 | |||
| Turnout | 2,00,275 | 56.08 | |||
| BJP gain from SP | Swing | ||||
16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| SP | Algoo Prasad Chauhan | 66,337 | 35.55 | 35.55
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| BSP | Ram Sidhare | 51,388 | 27.54 | 27.54
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| BJP | Neel Mani | 40,491 | 21.70 | 21.70
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| PECP | Surendra Kumar | 9,660 | 5.18 | 5.18
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| INC | Archana Mahatam | 9,293 | 4.98 | 4.98
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| SBSP | Om Hari | 3,726 | 2.00 | 2.00
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| Remainder 5 Candidates | 5,725 | 3.07 |
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| Majority | 14,949 | 8.01 | 8.01
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| Turnout | 1,86,620 | 55.30 | 55.30
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| SP win (new seat) | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ^ "Dhanghata Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
External links
[edit]- "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.