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{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency<br />
| name = Zamania<br />
| map = <br />
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
| union_territory =<br />
| district = [[Ghazipur district|Ghazipur]]<br />
| electorate = 3,87,810 (2014)<br />
| year = 2017<br />
| reserved = None<br />
| mla = [[Sunita (politician)|Sunita Singh]]<br />
| party = [[Bharatiya Janta Party]] <br />
}} <br />
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'''Zamania''' is a constituency of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] covering the city of Zamania in the [[Ghazipur district]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].<br />
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==History==<br />
Zamania is one of five assembly constituencies in the [[Ghazipur (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 379 amongst 403 constituencies. Before the separation of [[Uttrakhand]] from [[Uttar Pradesh]], Zamania was numbered 232, amongst 425 constituencies.<br />
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[[Raj Kumar Singh Gautam]] served as MLA for Zamania from 2007-2012,Om Praksh Singh Served as MLA for Zamania From 2012-2017. As of now, this seat belongs to [[Bharatiya Janta Party]] candidate [[Sunita (politician)|Sunita Singh]] who won in [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections]] by defeating [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] candidate [[Atul Rai]] by a margin of 9,264 votes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/zamania.html|title=Assembly result 2017|website=Elections.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref> This was only the 2nd victory for [[BJP]] since the party's formation, the 1st came in 28 years earlier<ref>https://resultuniversity.com/election/zamania-uttar-pradesh-assembly-constituency</ref> when Sharda Chauhan won with only 24,402 votes polled for [[BJP]] in 1991 & defeated Ravindra Yadav of [[Janata Dal]] by a margin of 2,357 votes<ref>https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/1991-election-results.html</ref> to establish [[BJP]]'s presence in the critical Assembly constituency. 1991 also was the 1st ever time when a female candidate <ref>https://resultuniversity.com/election/zamania-uttar-pradesh-assembly-constituency#1989</ref> contested for Zamania constituency and Chauhan was amongst the 10 female winners<ref>https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/1991-election-results.html</ref> in a 425 member house. <br />
To highlight the importance of victory in critical Zamania constituency, [[Kalyan Singh]] had awarded state planning and transport ministries with independent charge to Smt Chauhan in [[Kalyan Singh ministry]]. [[Samajwadi Party]] continued the tradition by awarding cabinet berths to Kailash (won in 1996 by defeating Sharda Chauhan by a margin of 6,987 votes,<ref>https://resultuniversity.com/election/zamania-uttar-pradesh-assembly-constituency#1996</ref> 2002) & [[Omprakash Singh]] (won in 2012) in [[Mulayam Singh]] & [[Akhilesh Yadav]] governments.<br />
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Politics of Ghazipur district]]<br />
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