Phulpur Assembly constituency

Phulpur
Constituency No. 256 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictPrayagraj
Total electors3,80,837 (2017)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  BJP
Elected year2024

Phulpur Assembly constituency is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Phulpur in the Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] The Delimitation Commission abolished the Jhusi Assembly constituency and in its place this new constituency came into existence in 2012.[2]

Phulpur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 256 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012 Sayeed Ahamad Samajwadi Party
2017 Praveen Patel Bharatiya Janata Party
2022
2024^ Deepak Patel

^ denotes by-election

Election results

2024 bypoll

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election, 2024: Phulpur[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Deepak Patel 78,289 44.1
SP Mohammad Mujtaba Siddiqui 66,984 37.73
BSP Jitendra Kumar Singh 24,791 13.97
Azad samaj party Shahid Khan 1,389 0.78 New
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NOTA None of the Above 1,145 0.65 Increase0.02
Majority 11,305 6.37 Increase5.26
Turnout 1,77,514 43.46
BJP hold Swing

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Phulpur[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Praveen Patel 103,557 42.0 +0.06
SP Mohammad Mujtaba Siddiqui 100,825 40.89 +10.84
BSP Ram Tolan Yadav 33,036 13.4 −9.12
NOTA None of the above 1,548 0.63 −0.1
Majority 2,732 1.11 −10.78
Turnout 246,588 60.32 +1.52
BJP hold Swing


2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Praveen Patel won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Mansoor Alam by a margin of 26,613 votes.[5]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Phulpu[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Praveen Patel 93,912 41.94
SP Mansoor Alam 67,299 30.05
BSP Mohammad Masroor Shaikh 50,421 22.52
Independent Ram Kishun Patel 2,048 0.91
NOTA None of the above 1,614 0.73
Majority 26,613 11.89
Turnout 223,933 58.8


2012

  • Sayeed Ahamad (SP) : 72,898 votes [6]
  • Praveen Patel (BSP) : 64,998


1977

  • Padmakar (JNP) : 27,238 votes [7]
  • Abul Kalam (INC) : 19,317


1962


References

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