Vishwanathganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Vishwanathganj in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1]
Vishwanathganj | |
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Constituency No. 247 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | North India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Pratapgarh |
Total electors | 3,99,623 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent Jeet Lal Patel | |
Party | Apna Dal (Sonelal) |
Elected year | 2022 |
Vishwanathganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 247 amongst 403 constituencies.
Election | Name | Party | |
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2012 | Raja Ram[2] | Samajwadi Party | |
2017 | Rakesh Kumar Verma[3] | Apna Dal | |
2022 | Jeet Lal Patel[4] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AD(S) | Jeet Lal Patel | 86,829 | |||
SP | Saurabh Singh | 38,777 | |||
Independent | Sanjay Pandey | 23,000 | |||
Jan Adhikar Party | Mohd Ashfaq | 20,271 | |||
INC | Prashant Singh | 1,933 | |||
AAP | Pankaj Pal[5] | 1,484 | |||
Majority | 48,052 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
AD(S) hold | Swing |
Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Rakesh Kumar Verma won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating INC candidate Sanjay Pandey by a margin of 23,358 votes.[3]
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