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Gauriganj
Gauriganj
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Amethi
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Rakesh Pratap Singh
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Gauriganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gauriganj in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]

Gauriganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 185 amongst 403 constituencies.^[1]

Election results edit

2022 edit

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gauriganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Rakesh Pratap Singh	79,040	38.96
	BJP	Chandraprakash Mishra Matiyari	72,077	35.53
	INC	Fateh Bahadur	28,964	14.28
	BSP	Ramlakhan	9,872	4.87
	Jansatta Dal (L)	Chaudhary Nafees Ahamad	7,056	3.48
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,920	0.95
Majority			6,963
Turnout
	SP hold		Swing

2017 edit

Samajwadi Party candidate Rakesh Pratap Singh won in 2017 defeating Indian National Congress candidate Mohammad Nayem by a margin of 26,419 votes.^[2] On 31 October 2021, Singh resigned from the 17th Uttar Pradesh Assembly citing "non-fulfilment of promises" by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government.^[3]

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
^ PTI (31 October 2021). "SP MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh resigns from U.P. Assembly alleging non-fulfilment of promises by BJP government". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 November 2021.