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Purwa Assembly constituency

Coordinates: 26°28′N 80°46′E / 26.46°N 80.77°E / 26.46; 80.77
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Purwa
Constituency No. 167 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictUnnao
Total electors4,15,472
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBJP
Elected year2022[1]

Purwa is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Purwa in the Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[2]

Purwa is one of six assembly constituencies in the Unnao Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 167 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Anil Singh who won in the Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Uttam Chandra by a margin of 26,483 votes.[3]

Anil Singh also won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Udayraj by a margin of 31061 votes.[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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Year Member[5] Party
1952 Ramadhin Singh Indian National Congress
1957 Parmeshwari Din Varma Independent
1962 Ramadhin Singh Indian National Congress
1967 Lakhan Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969 Dularey Lal Indian National Congress
1974 Gaya Singh
1977 Chandra Bhushan Singh Janata Party
1980 Gaya Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Hriday Narayan Dikshit Independent
1989 Janata Dal
1991 Janata Party
1993 Samajwadi Party
1996 Udayraj Yadav
2002
2007
2012
2017 Anil Kumar Singh Bahujan Samaj Party
2022 Bharatiya Janata Party

References

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  1. ^ "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. ^ "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Purwa Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.

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