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{{short description|Legislative assembly in Uttar Pradesh, India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Ayodhya
| map_image = 275-Ayodhya.svg
| mla = [[Ved Prakash Gupta]]
| constituency_no = 275
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| latest_election_year = [[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| district = [[Ayodhya district|Ayodhya]]
| reservation = None
| type = SLA
| electors = 3,82,056
| loksabha_cons = [[Ayodhya Lok Sabha constituency|Ayodhya]]
}}

'''Ayodhya''' is a constituency of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] covering the city of [[Ayodhya]] in the [[Ayodhya district]] of Uttar Pradesh, India.<ref name="election2002">{{cite web |url=https://upload.indiacode.nic.in/showfile?actid=AC_CEN_3_20_00030_200233_1517807324510&type=order&filename=Delimitation%20Order,2008.pdf |title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 |date=26 November 2008 |access-date=24 June 2021}}</ref> It is one of five assembly constituencies in the [[Ayodhya Lok Sabha constituency]]. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 275 amongst 403 constituencies.

[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] member [[Ved Prakash Gupta]] is the incumbent [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]], who won in the [[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]] defeating [[Samajwadi Party]] candidate Tej Narayan Pandey by a margin of 19,990 votes.<ref name="election2022">{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/ayodhya.html|title=Assembly result 2022|website=Elections.in|access-date=12 March 2022}}</ref>

== Members of Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Member<ref name="election2018">{{Cite web |title=Ayodhya Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs |url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/Ayodhya.html |access-date= |website=Elections in India}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|[[1967 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|B. Kishore
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
|-
|[[1969 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|Vishwanath Kapoor
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1974 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1974]]
|Bed Prakash Agarwal
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
|-
|[[1977 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|Jai Shanker Pandey
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|[[Janata Party]]
|-
|[[1980 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
|Nirmal Kumar
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|-
|[[1985 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
|Surendra Pratap Singh
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1989 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1989]]
|Jai Shanker Pandey
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Dal}}" |
|[[Janata Dal]]
|-
|[[1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
| rowspan="5" |[[Lallu Singh]]
| rowspan="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
| rowspan="5" |[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|[[1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]]
|-
|[[1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|-
|[[2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2002]]
|-
|[[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2007]]
|-
|[[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012]]
|[[Tej Narayan Pandey]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|-
|[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Ved Prakash Gupta]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
|}

== Election results ==

=== 2022 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Ayodhya<ref name="election2022"/>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Ved Prakash Gupta]]
|votes = {{formatnum:113414}}
|percentage = 49.04
|change = {{decrease}}0.16
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = [[Tej Narayan Pandey]]
|votes = {{formatnum:93424}}
|percentage = 40.4
|change = {{increase}}14.39
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Ravi Prakash
|votes = {{formatnum:17706}}
|percentage = 7.66
|change = {{decrease}}10.53
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:1240}}
|percentage = 0.54
|change = {{decrease}}0.18
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:19990}}
|percentage = 8.64
|change = {{decrease}}14.55
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:231258}}
|percentage = 60.53
|change = {{decrease}}1.43
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Samajwadi Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2017 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Ayodhya]]<ref name="election2017">{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3471-uttar-pradesh-general-legislative-election-2017/ |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |title=State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh |website=eci.gov.in |access-date=26 March 2022}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Ved Prakash Gupta]]
|votes = {{formatnum:107014}}
|percentage = 49.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = [[Tej Narayan Pandey]]
|votes = {{formatnum:56574}}
|percentage = 26.01
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Mo Bazmi Siddeke
|votes = {{formatnum:39554}}
|percentage = 18.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Mukti Party
|candidate = Banshi Lal Yadav
|votes = {{formatnum:5661}}
|percentage = 2.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:1544}}
|percentage = 0.72
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:50440}}
|percentage = 23.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:217488}}
|percentage = 61.96
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Samajwadi Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |title=Election results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/category/92-uttar-pradesh/ |website=eci.gov.in |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=15 March 2022}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh}}
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Ayodhya]]
[[Category:Ayodhya district]]
[[Category:Politics of Uttar Pradesh]]

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