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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency
| name = Amethi
| map =
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| union_territory =
| district = [[Amethi district|Amethi]]
| electorate =
| year = 2017
| reserved = None
| mla = [[Garima Singh]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janta Party]]
}}

'''Amethi''' is a constituency of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]. '''[[Amethi]]''' (अमेठी) covers the city of Amethi in the [[Amethi district]] of Uttar Pradesh, India. Amethi Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the five assembly constituencies which fall under [[Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 185 amongst 403 constituencies.

{{Short description|Vidhan Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh}}

Currently this seat belongs to [[Bharatiya Janta Party]] candidate [[Garima Singh]] who won in last Assembly election of [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017 Uttar Pradesh Lagislative Elections]] defeating [[Samajwadi Party]] candidate [[Gayatri Prasad Prajapati]] by a margin of 5,065 votes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/amethi.html|title=Assembly result 2017|website=Elections.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>

[[Sanjaya Sinh|Sanjay Singh]] has been a major player in the local politics. His father, Rananjay Singh, was elected from this seat. Later Sanjay Singh himself, his first wife Garima Singh, and his second wife Ameeta Singh have all been elected from the constituency.

== Members of Vidhan Sabha ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Winner
!Party
!Ref.
|-
|1951
|Kunwar [[Rananjay Singh]]
|[[Independent politician|Independent]]
|
|-
|1957
|Rama Kant Singh
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref name="1957 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_UP_1957.pdf|title=1957 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|1962
|Vaidya Baij Nath Singh
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref name="1962 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_UP_1962.pdf|title=1962 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|1967
| [[Ravindra Pratap Singh]]
|[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
|<ref name="1967 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201967%20.pdf|title=1967 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|1969
|Raja [[Rananjaya Singh]]
|[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
|<ref name="1969 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/Statistical%20Report%201969%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf|title=1969 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|1974
|Raja [[Rananjaya Singh]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref name="1974 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1974/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201974.pdf|title=1974 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|1977
|Haricharan Yadav
|[[Janata Party]]
|<ref name="1977 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201977.pdf|title=1977 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|1980
|Rajkumar [[Sanjaya Sinh]]
|[[Indian National Congress|Indian National Congress (I)]]
|<ref name="1980 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1980/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201980.pdf|title=1980 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|1985
|Rajkumar [[Sanjaya Sinh]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref name="1985 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1985/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201985.pdf|title=1985 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|1989
|Haricharan Yadav
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref name="1989 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1989/Statistical%20Report_%20UP_1989.pdf|title=1989 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|[[1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|Haricharan Yadav
|[[Janata Party (Secular)]]
|<ref name="1991 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/Stat_Rep_UP_91.pdf|title=1991 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|[[1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]]
|Jamuna Mishra
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|<ref name="1993 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1993/StatisticalReport_UP_1993.pdf|title=1993 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|[[1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|Ram Harsh Singh
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref name="1996 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-UP96.pdf|title=1996 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|[[2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2002]]
|[[Ameeta Singh]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|<ref name="2002 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2002/Stat_rep_UP_2002.pdf|title=2002 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|[[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2007]]
|[[Ameeta Singh]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref name="2007 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2007/StatReport_AS_2007_UTTAR_PRADESH.pdf|title=2007 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|[[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012]]
|[[Gayatri Prasad Prajapati]]
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|<ref name="2012 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2012/Stats_Report_UP2012.pdf|title=2012 Election Results|access-date=1 June 2018|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>
|-
|[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
|[[Garima Singh]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|
|}

== Election Results ==
* 1951: Kunwer Rananjai Singh (IND) 21,536 votes. Defeated Baijnath Singh (INC) 7,835 votes.
* 1957: Rama Kant Singh (INC) defeated Bijai Pal (Independent) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/Amethi.html|title=Amethi Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs|website=Elections in India}}</ref>
* 1962: Vaidya Baij Nath Singh (INC) defeated Ram Bali (Ind)
* 1967 [[Ravindra Pratap Singh|R. P. Singh]] (BJS) defeated Baij Nath Singh Vaidya (INC)
* 1969: Raja Rananjaya Singh (Bharatiya Jana Sangh), defeated Baij Nath Singh Vaidya (INC)
* 1974: Raja Rananjai Singh (INC) defeated [[Ravindra Pratap Singh]] (BJS)
* 1977: Haricharan Yadav (Janata Party) 18,304 votes. Defeated Baij Nath Singh Vaidya (INC)
* 1980: Rajkumar Sanjay Singh (Congress-Indira) defeated Hari Charan JNP(SC)
* etc etc
* 1996: Ram Harsh Singh (INC) 36,069 votes. Defeated Jamuna Prasad Mishra (BJP) : 31,870
* 2002: Amita Singh (BJP) 55,949 votes. Defeated Ashish (INC) 37,184 votes.
* 2007: Amita Singh (INC) 48,108 votes. Defeated Ashish (BSP) 35,684 votes.
* 2012: Gayatri Prasad Prajapati (Samajwadi Party) 58,434 votes. Defeated Ameeta Sinh (INC) 49,674 votes
* 2017: Garima Singh (BJP) 64,226 votes defeated Gayatri Prajapati of SP, third placed Ram Ji of BSP, and fourth placed Ameeta Sinh of Congress <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.india.com/assembly-election-2017/uttar-pradesh/amethi/|title=2017 Amethi - Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Winner, LIVE Results & Latest News: Election Dates, Polling Schedule, Election Results & Live Election Updates|website=India.com}}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist}}{{Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Amethi]]

Amethi (Assembly constituency) - Revision history

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