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Colonelganj Assembly constituency

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Colonelganj
Constituency No. 298 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictGonda
Total electors3,30,403
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
Elected year2022

Colonelganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the town of Colonelganj in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Colonelganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Kaiserganj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 298 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Member Party
1967 Kunwar Madan Mohan Singh Independent politician
1969 Bhagelu Singh Samyukta Socialist Party
1974 Raghuraj Singh Indian National Congress
1977 Triveni Singh Janata Party
1980 Umeshwar Pratap Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1989 Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya Independent politician
1991 Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996
2002 Yogesh Pratap Singh Bahujan Samaj Party
2007 Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya Indian National Congress
2008^ Kunwari Brij Singh Bahujan Samaj Party
2012 Yogesh Pratap Singh Samajwadi Party
2017 Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya Bharatiya Janata Party
2022 Ajay Kumar Singh

^denotes by-poll

Election results

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Colonelganj[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ajay Kumar Singh 108,109 55.8 +10.39
SP Yogesh Pratap Singh 72,637 37.49 +7.64
BSP Ranjeet 3,764 1.94 −16.28
INC Triloki Nath Tiwari 3,756 1.94
NOTA None of the above 2,399 1.24 −0.29
Majority 35,472 18.31 +2.75
Turnout 193,761 58.64 +0.69
BJP hold Swing


Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ajay Pratap Singh alias Lalla Bhaiya won in the Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Yogesh Pratap Singh by a margin of 28,405 votes.[2]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Colonelganj[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ajay Pratap Singh 82,867 45.41
SP Yogesh Pratap Singh 54,462 29.85
BSP Santosh Kumar Tiwari 33,241 18.22
NOTA None of the above 2,748 1.53
Majority 28,405 15.56
Turnout 182,468 57.95


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