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Sarojini Nagar Assembly constituency

Coordinates: 26°45′N 80°52′E / 26.75°N 80.86°E / 26.75; 80.86
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Sarojini Nagar
Constituency No. 170 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Rajeshwar Singh
Current MLA of Sarojini Nagar
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictLucknow
LS constituencyMohanlalganj
Total electors5,67,252
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBJP
AllianceNDA
Elected year2022

Sarojini Nagar is one of the 403 assembly constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the area of Sarojini Nagar in the Lucknow district. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency.

Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 170 amongst 403 constituencies.

In 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rajeshwar Singh won the elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Abhishek Mishra by the margin of 56,186 votes. He is an ex-ED Joint Director IPS officer who has taken VRS from the service to contest the elections.[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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Year Member[2] Party
1967 Vijay Kumar Tripathi Indian National Congress
1969 Chandra Bhanu Gupta
1974 Vijay Kumar Tripathi
1977 Chheda Singh Chauhan Janata Party
1980 Vijay Kumar Tripathi Indian National Congress
1985 Sharda Pratap Shukla Independent
1989 Janata Dal
1991 Vijay Kumar Tripathi Indian National Congress
1993 Shyam Kishore Yadav Samajwadi Party
1996
2002 Mohammad Irshad Khan Bahujan Samaj Party
2007
2012 Sharda Pratap Shukla Samajwadi Party
2017 Swati Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2022 Rajeshwar Singh

Election results

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2022[3]

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Rajeshwar Singh 1,60,626 49.07 +11.76
SP Abhishek Mishra 1,04,440 31.9 +6.35
BSP Mohd. Jaleesh Khan 33,356 10.19 −14.49
INC Rudra Daman Singh 19,711 6.02
AAP Rohit Srivastav[4] 2,427 0.74
NOTA NOTA 1,822 0.56 −0.10
Majority 56,186 17.17 +5.41
Turnout 3,27,373
BJP hold Swing {{{swing}}}

2017[5]

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2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Swati Singh 1,08,506 37.31
SP Anurag Yadav 74,327 25.55
BSP Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari) 71,791 24.68
IND. Rudra Daman Singh 20,607 7.08
RLD Sharda Pratap Shukla 4,489 1.54
NOTA None of the Above 1,926 0.66
Majority 34,179 11.76
Turnout 2,90,894 58.35
BJP gain from SP Swing

2012

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2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Sharda Pratap Shukla 67,601 28.88
BSP Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari) 59,236 25.30
RSBP Rudra Daman Singh 41,386 17.68
BJP Virendra Kumar Tiwari 29,510 12.61
INC Gaurav Choudhry 22,003 9.40
AD Sher Bahadur Singh (Shera) 2,581 1.10
Majority 8,365 3.58
Turnout 2,34,090 59.17
SP gain from BSP Swing

2007

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2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BSP Mohammad Irshad Khan 65,736 36.99
SP Shyam Kishore Yadav 60,312 33.93
BJP Virendra Kumar Tiwari 21,364 12.02
INC Ajay Kumar Tripathi 10,487 5.90
JM Lalloo Yadav 3,434 1.93
RSBP Bachan Singh Yadav 1,952 1.10
Majority 5,424 3.06
Turnout 1,77,723 43.56
BSP hold Swing

References

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  1. ^ Pandey, Munish Chandra (11 March 2022). "BJP MLA Rajeshwar Singh: How an ED officer made the leap from law enforcement to lawmaker". India Today. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Sarojini Nagar Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. ^ Hindustan Times (10 March 2022). "UP assembly election results 2022: Check full list of winners". Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  4. ^ Bhandari, Shashwat (16 January 2022). "AAP announces 150 candidates for UP elections 2022 | Check complete list". indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  5. ^ India Today (11 March 2017). "Uttar Pradesh election results 2017: Full list of constituency-wise winners". Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
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