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{{short description|Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2019}}
'''Machhlishahr''' is a constituency of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] covering the city of Machhlishahr in the [[Jaunpur district]] of Uttar Pradesh, India.
{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency
| name = Machhlishahr <br/> मछलीशहर
| map =
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| union_territory =
| district = [[Jaunpur district|Jaunpur]]
| electorate =
| year = 2017
| reserved = [[Schedule Caste]]
| mla = [[Jagdish Sonkar]]
| party = [[Samajwadi Party]]
}}
Machhlishahr is one of five assembly constituencies in the [[Machhlishahr (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 369 amongst 403 constituencies.

As of now, this seat belongs to [[Samajwadi Party]] candidate [[Jagdish Sonkar]] who won in [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections]] by defeating [[Bharatiya Janta Party]] candidate Anita Rawat by a margin of 4,179 votes.<ref name="2017 result">{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/machhlishahr.html|title=Assembly result 2017|website=Elections.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>

==Member of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" width="80%" style="font-size: x-big;"
|-
!Scope=col|#
!scope=col|Term
!scope=col|Member of Legislative Assembly
!scope=col|Party
!scope=col|From
!scope=col|To
!scope=col|Days
!scope=col|Comment
|-
| 01|| [[2nd Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|2nd Vidhan Sabha]] ||Mohd Rauf Jafri || [[Indian National Congress]] || April 1957 || March 1962 ||1,800||
|-
| 02|| [[3rd Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|3rd Vidhan Sabha]] || Kesari Prasad || [[Praja Socialist Party]] || March 1962|| March 1967 ||1,828||
|-
| 03|| [[4th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|4th Vidhan Sabha]] || Mohd Rauf Jafri || [[Indian National Congress]]|| March 1967|| April 1968 ||402 ||
|-
| 04|| [[5th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|5th Vidhan Sabha]] || Moti Lal || [[Bharatiya Kranti Dal]] || February 1969 ||March 1974 || 1,832||
|-
| 05|| [[6th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|6th Vidhan Sabha]] || Agha Zaidi ||rowspan="2"| [[Indian National Congress]] || March 1974 ||April 1977 || 1,153||
|-
| 06|| [[7th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|7th Vidhan Sabha]] || Arun Kumar || June 1977 ||February 1980 || 969||
|-
| 07|| [[8th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|08th Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="2"|Keshri Prasad || [[Indian National Congress (Indira)]] ||June 1980 ||March 1985 ||1,735||
|-
| 08|| [[9th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|9th Vidhan Sabha]] || [[Indian National Congress]] || March 1985 ||November 1989 || 1,725||
|-
| 09|| [[10th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|10th Vidhan Sabha]] || rowspan="4"|Jwala Prasad Yadav||rowspan="3"| [[Janata Dal]] ||December 1989 ||April 1991 ||488||<ref name="2017 result"/>
|-
| 10|| [[11th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|11th Vidhan Sabha]]||June 1991 ||December 1992 ||533||
|-
| 11|| [[12th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|12th Vidhan Sabha]]||December 1993 ||October 1995 ||693||
|-
| 12|| [[13th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|13th Vidhan Sabha]] ||[[Samajwadi Party]] || October 1996 ||March 2002 || 1,967||<ref name="2017 result"/>
|-
| 13|| [[14th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|14th Vidhan Sabha]] || Vinod Kumar Singh ||rowspan="2"|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]|| February 2002 ||May 2007 || 1,902||
|-
| 14|| [[15th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|15th Vidhan Sabha]] || Subhash Pandey || May 2007 ||March 2012 || 1,762||<ref name="2017 result"/>
|-
| 15|| [[Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|16th Vidhan Sabha]] ||rowspan="2"|[[Jagdish Sonkar]]||rowspan="2"|[[Samajwadi Party]]|| March 2012 ||March 2017 || 1,829||<ref name="2017 result"/>
|-
| 16|| [[Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|17th Vidhan Sabha]] || March 2017 ||Incumbent ||{{age in days|2017|03|19}} ||<ref name="2017 result"/>
|-
|}

==Election Results==
===17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 General Elections===
{{Election box begin | title=2017 General Elections: Machhlishahr<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2017/UP/10.Detailed%20Results.pdf|title=Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result|website=Election Commission of India|access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref> }}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Samajwadi Party
| candidate = [[Jagdish Sonkar]]
| votes = 72,368
| percentage = 35.10
| change = -
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Bharatiya Janata Party
| candidate = Anita Rawat
| votes = 68,189
| percentage = 33.07
| change = -
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Bahujan Samaj Party
| candidate = Sushila Saroj
| votes = 52,796
| percentage = 25.61
| change = -
}}
{{Election box candidate
| party = NISHAD
| candidate = Ram Sevak
| votes = 4,484
| percentage = 2.17
| change = -
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[None of the above|None of the Above]]
|party = None of the above
|votes = 2,165
|percentage = 1.05
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| party =
| candidate = Reminder 10 candidates
| votes = 8,342
| percentage = 4
| change = -
}}
{{Election box majority
| votes = 4,179
| percentage = 2.01
| change = -
}}
{{Election box turnout
| votes = 2,08,344
| percentage = 57.06
| change = -
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|loser = Bharatiya Janata Party
|winner = Samajwadi Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh}}

{{coord missing|Uttar Pradesh}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Politics of Jaunpur district]]

{{UttarPradesh-geo-stub}}

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