Basti Sadar (Assembly constituency)

Basti Sadar is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Basti in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1][2][3]

Basti Sadar
Constituency
DistrictBasti
StateUttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created2017
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
MLADayaram Chaudhary
ReservationNone

Basti Sadar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Basti (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 310 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dayaram Chaudhary who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Mahendra Nath Yadav by a margin of 42,594 votes.[4]

Member of Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
# Term Member of Legislative Assembly Party From To Days Comment
017th Vidhan SabhaJagadamba Prasad SinghJanata PartyJune 1977February 1980969Constituency Known as "Basti" he renamed in 2008 as "Basti Sadar" [5]
0208th Vidhan SabhaAlmeloo AmmalIndian National Congress (Indira)June 1980March 19851,735
039th Vidhan SabhaIndian National CongressMarch 1985November 19891,725
0410th Vidhan SabhaRajmani PandeyJanata DalDecember 1989April 1991488[4]
0511th Vidhan SabhaLakshmeshwar SinghJune 1991December 1992533
0612th Vidhan SabhaJagdambika PalIndian National CongressDecember 1993October 1995693
0713th Vidhan SabhaAll India Indira Congress (Tiwari)October 1996March 20021,967[4]
0814th Vidhan SabhaIndian National CongressFebruary 2002May 20071,902
0915th Vidhan SabhaJitendra Kumar Alias Nandu ChaudharyBahujan Samaj PartyMay 2007March 20121,762[4]
1016th Vidhan SabhaMarch 2012March 20171,829[4]
1117th Vidhan SabhaDayaram ChaudharyBhartiya Janata Party March 2017Incumbent[4]

Election Results

17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 General Elections
2017 General Elections: Basti Sadar[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Dayaram Chaudhary 92,697 45.13 +27.41
SP Mahendra Nath Yadav 50,103 24.39 +11.08
BSP Jitendra Kumar 49,538 24.12 -5.13
RLD Raja Ashwarya Raj Singh 4,152 2.02 +2.02
NISHAD Gauri Shankar 1,707 0.83 +0.83
NOTA None Of The Above 1,206 0.59 +0.59
Remainder 9 candidates 7,219 3.49 N/A
Majority 42,594 20.61 +10.13
Turnout 2,06,622 59.41 +1.12
BJP gain from BSP Swing +15.48

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections
2012 General Elections: Basti Sadar[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BSP Jitendra Kumar 53,011 29.25
INC Abhishek Pal 34,008 18.76
BJP Harish Dwivedi 32,121 17.72
PECP Dayaram Chaudhary 23,709 13.08
SP Chandra Bhushan Mishra 23,369 12.89
SBSP Manoj Kumar Rajbhar 3,203 1.77
Independent Ajay Mohan Gandhi 1,899 1.05
Remainder 13 candidates 9,926 5.48
Majority 19,003 10.48
Turnout 1,81,246 58.29
BSP hold Swing

References
  1. "Know Constituencies of UP Assembly elections 2017: Basti Sadar". One india. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  2. "बस्ती सदर विधानसभा चुनाव 2018 परिणाम, उत्तर प्रदेश". NDTV India. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  3. "बस्ती सदर विधानसभा चुनाव के पिछले परिणामों पर एक नजर". Punjab Kesari. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  4. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  5. "151 - Basti Assembly Constituency". eci.nic.in. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  6. "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  7. "Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 November 2018.


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