Menhdawal (Assembly constituency)

Menhdawal
Menhdawal
	Constituency
District	Sant Kabir Nagar
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA	Rakesh Singh Baghel
Reservation	None

Menhdawal is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Menhdawal in the Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Menhdawal is one of five assembly constituencies in the Sant Kabir Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 312 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Rakesh Singh Baghel who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Anil Kumar Tripathi by a margin of 42,914 votes.[1][2][3]

Member of Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	3rd Vidhan Sabha	Sucheta Kripalani	Indian National Congress	March 1962	March 1967	1,828
02	4th Vidhan Sabha	Chandra Sekhar Singh	Bhartiya Jana Sangh	March 1967	April 1968	402
03	5th Vidhan Sabha	Lalsa Prasad	Indian National Congress	February 1969	March 1974	1,831
04	6th Vidhan Sabha	Chandra Sekhar Singh	Bhartiya Jana Sangh	March 1974	April 1977	1,153
05	07th Vidhan Sabha	Chandra Sekhar Singh	Janata Party	June 1977	February 1980	969
06	08th Vidhan Sabha	Mohd Nabi Khan	Indian National Congress (U)	June 1980	March 1985	1,735
07	09th Vidhan Sabha	Afsar-U-Ahmad	Indian National Congress	March 1985	November 1989	1,725
08	10th Vidhan Sabha	Chander Shekhar Singh	Bhartiya Janata Party	December 1989	April 1991	488
09	11th Vidhan Sabha			June 1991	December 1992	533
10	12th Vidhan Sabha			December 1993	October 1995	693
11	13th Vidhan Sabha	Abdul Kalam	Samajwadi Party	October 1996	March 2002	1,967
12	14th Vidhan Sabha			February 2002	May 2007	1,902
13	15th Vidhan Sabha			May 2007	March 2012	1,762
14	16th Vidhan Sabha	Laxmikant		March 2012	March 2017	1,829	[3]
15	17th Vidhan Sabha	Rakesh Singh Baghel	Bhartiya Janata Party	March 2017	Incumbent	1406	[2]

Election Results

17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 General Elections

2017 General Elections: Menhdawal[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rakesh Singh Baghel	86,976	39.15	+24.44
	BSP	Anil Kumar Tripathi	44,062	19.83	+3.84
	SP	Jai Chand alias Jairam Pandey	37,557	16.91	-10.13
	PECP	Mohammad Irfan	25,499	11.48	-7.81
	AIMIM	Mohd Tabish Khan	19,040	8.57	+8.57
	RLD	Mohd Akram Hussain	3,445	1.55	+1.55
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,663	1.20	+1.20
		Remainder 6 candidates	5,578	2.48	N/A
Majority			42,914	19.09	+11.34
Turnout			2,24,820	51.27	-0.29
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	+8.96

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 General Elections: Menhdawal[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Laxmikant	56,107	27.04
	PECP	Anil Kumar Tripathi	40,030	19.29
	BSP	Mohd Tayyab	33,183	15.99
	BJP	Rakesh Singh Baghel	30,525	14.71
	INC	Madan Narayan Singh	20,966	10.10
	JD(U)	Chandra Sekhar Pandey	10,897	5.25
	IND	Rajendra Kumar	2,773	1.34
		Reminder 12 Candidates	13,040	6.28
Majority			16,077	7.75
Turnout			2,07,521	51.56
	SP hold		Swing

References

"Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
"Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
"Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 November 2018.

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[election_result-1] "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

[2017_result-2] "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 November 2018.

[2012_result-3] "Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 November 2018.