Chitrakoot (Assembly constituency)

Chitrakoot is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Chitrakoot in the Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Chitrakoot
Constituency
DistrictChitrakoot
StateUttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created2017
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
MLAChandrika Prasad Upadhyay
ReservationNone

Chitrakoot is one of five assembly constituencies in the Banda (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 236 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Lagislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Veer Singh by a margin of 26,936 votes.[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#TermNamePartyFromToDaysCommentsRef
116th Vidhan SabhaVeer SinghSamajwadi PartyMarch 2012March 20171,829-[1]
217th Vidhan SabhaChandrika Prasad UpadhyayBharatiya Janata PartyMarch 2017Incumbent1407[2]

Election Results

17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 Assembly Elections

2017 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 90,366 41.52 23.70
SP Veer Singh 63,430 29.14 6.64
BSP Jagdish Prasad Gautam 47,780 21.95 4.98
CPI Amit Yadav 3,378 1.55 0.80
NISHAD Ugrasen 2,679 1.23
JAM Chhedilal 2,543 1.17
ABHM Chandra Kishor Dwivedi 1,746 0.80
RLD Ashish Singh 1,237 0.57
Independent Shiva Kant Shastri 1,186 0.54
BMP Durgesh 1,147 0.53
Independent Satynarayan 1,136 0.52
SWAJANPA Chandan Singh 1,042 0.48
NOTA None of the Above 3,528 1.62 New
Majority 26,936 12.38 3.53
Turnout 2,21,199 62.02 1.47
BJP gain from SP Swing 5.74

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 Assembly Elections

2012 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Veer Singh 65,267 35.78
BSP Ram Sevak 49,131 26.93
BJP Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay 32,507 17.82
INC Pushpendra Singh 18,921 10.37
CPI Amit Yadav 4,291 2.35
Remainder 8 candidates 12,308 6.74
Majority 16,136 8.85
Turnout 1,82,425 60.55
SP win (new seat)

References

  1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. "Chitrakoot Assembly Constituency Election Result". resultuniversity.com. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  3. "Rampur Maniharan Election Results 2017, Winner and Runner-up, Candidate list". elections.in. Retrieved 5 November 2018.


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