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Vishwanathganj Assembly constituency

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Vishwanathganj
Constituency No. 247 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictPratapgarh
Total electors3,99,623
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Jeet Lal Patel
PartyApna Dal (Sonelal)
Elected year2022

Vishwanathganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Vishwanathganj in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1]

Vishwanathganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 247 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Member[2] Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012 Raja Ram Samajwadi Party
2014^ Rakesh Kumar Verma Apna Dal
2017 Apna Dal (Soneylal)
2022 Jeet Lal Patel

Election results

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vishwanathganj[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AD(S) Jeet Lal Patel 86,829 43.21 Increase1.56
SP Saurabh Singh 38,777 19.3
Independent Sanjay Pandey 22,962 11.43
Jan Adhikar Party Mohd Ashfaq 20,271 10.09
BSP Sanjay 16,633 8.28 Decrease8.95
INC Prashant Singh 1,910 0.95 Decrease28.82
CPI Maharani Deen 1,871 0.93 Decrease0.41
NOTA None of the above 1,900 0.95 Decrease0.05
Majority 48,052 23.91 Increase12.03
Turnout 200,930 50.28 Decrease1.39
AD(S) hold Swing


Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Rakesh Kumar Verma won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating INC candidate Sanjay Pandey by a margin of 23,358 votes.[4][5]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Vishwanathgan[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AD(S) Rakesh Kumar Verma Alias Dr.R.K.Verma 81,899 41.65
INC Sanjay Pandey 58,541 29.77
BSP Premanand Tripathi 33,878 17.23
Independent Rakesh Kumar 5,830 2.97
CPI Upendra Narayan 2,627 1.34
Rashtriya Janta Party Sushil Kumar 2,053 1.04
NOTA None of the above 1,951 1.0
Majority 23,358 11.88
Turnout 196,623 51.67


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