Chunar Assembly constituency

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

Chunar
Constituency No. 398 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictMirzapur
Total electors3,54,274
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
Elected year2017

Chunar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 398 amongst 403 constituencies. Current MLA from Chunar is Anurag Singh.

Members of Legislative Assembly

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Year Member[1] Party
1957 Raj Kumar Indian National Congress
1959^ Onkar Nath
1962 Rajnarain Singh
1967
1969 Shiva Das Samyukta Socialist Party
1974 Om Prakash Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977 Janata Party
1980 Yadunath Singh Janata Party (Secular)
1985 Lokdal
1989 Janata Dal
1991
1993 Om Prakash Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
2002
2007
2012 Jagtamba Patel Samajwadi Party
2017 Anurag Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

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2022

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chunar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Anurag Singh[2] 110708[3]
AD(K) Ramashankar Prasad Singh 62708

2017

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Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anurag Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Jagtamba Singh Patel by a margin of 62,228 votes.[4]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chunar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Anurag Singh[5] 105149
SP Jagtamba Singh Patel 43094

References

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  1. ^ "Chunar Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  2. ^ Bhandari, Shashwat (16 January 2022). "AAP announces 150 candidates for UP elections 2022 | Check complete list". indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  3. ^ Election results
  4. ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Chunar Election Results 2017: Anurag Singh of BJP Wins". News18. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
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