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

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

26°28′N 80°46′E / 26.46°N 80.77°E / 26.46; 80.77

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