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{{Short description|Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Zamania
| map_image = 379-Zamania.svg
| mla = [[Omprakash Singh]]
| party = [[Samajwadi Party]]
| latest_election_year = 2022
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| district = [[Ghazipur district|Ghazipur]]
| reservation = None
| electors = 3,87,810 (2014)
| type= SLA
| constituency_no = 379
}}

'''Zamania''' is a constituency of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] covering the city of Zamania in the [[Ghazipur district]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].

==History==
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.

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Member<ref name="election2018">{{Cite web |title=ZamaniaElection and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs |url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/Zamania.html |access-date= |website=Elections in India}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|[[1957 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
| rowspan="2" |Vashishta Narain Sharma
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1962 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|-
|[[1967 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|Ram Sunder Shastri
| style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|-
|[[1969 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|Vashishta Narain Sharma
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1974 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1974]]
| rowspan="2" |Dharam Ram
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Kranti Dal}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Kranti Dal]]
|-
|[[1977 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|[[Janata Party]]
|-
|[[1980 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
|Saheb Singh
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|-
|[[1985 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
|[[Lalta Prasad Nishad]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1989 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1989]]
|Ravinder Kumar Singh
| style="background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |
|[[Independent politician|Independent]]
|-
|[[1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|Sharda Chauhan
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|[[1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]]
|[[Jai Ram Kushwaha]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}" |
|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|-
|[[1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
| rowspan="2" |Kailash Yadav
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Samajwadi Party]]
|-
|[[2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2002]]
|-
|[[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2007]]
|[[Raj Kumar Singh Gautam]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}" |
|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|-
|[[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012]]
|[[Omprakash Singh]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|-
|[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
|[[Sunita (politician)|Sunita Singh]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
|[[Omprakash Singh]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |
|[[Samajwadi Party]]
|}

==Election results==

=== 2022 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Zamania<ref name="election2022">{{Cite web |date=2022-05-25 |title=Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/14185-uttar-pradesh-general-legislative-election-2022/|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = Om Prakash Singh
|votes = {{formatnum:94695}}
|percentage = 40.57
|change = +17.76
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sunita Singh
|votes = {{formatnum:72239}}
|percentage = 30.95
|change = -4.41
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Mohammad Yusuf Farid Khan
|votes = {{formatnum:53303}}
|percentage = 22.84
|change = -8.26
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Jan Adhikar Party
|candidate = Sahatu
|votes = {{formatnum:5258}}
|percentage = 2.25
|change = -0.58
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:1675}}
|percentage = 0.72
|change = -0.14
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:22456}}
|percentage = 9.62
|change = +5.36
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:233390}}
|percentage = 54.79
|change = -0.19
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|
|winner = Samajwadi Party
|loser = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2017 ===
{{Election box begin
|title = [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election]]: Zamania<ref name="election2017"/>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sunita
|votes = {{formatnum:76823}}
|percentage = 35.36
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Atul Kumar
|votes = {{formatnum:67559}}
|percentage = 31.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = Om Prakash
|votes = {{formatnum:49557}}
|percentage = 22.81
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Kartar Singh Yadav
|votes = {{formatnum:12206}}
|percentage = 5.62
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Jan Adhikar Party
|candidate = Tauqeer Khan
|votes = {{formatnum:6139}}
|percentage = 2.83
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:1857}}
|percentage = 0.86
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:9264}}
|percentage = 4.26
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:217230}}
|percentage = 54.98
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==Previous years==

[[Raj Kumar Singh Gautam]] served as MLA for Zamania from 2007 to 2012, Om Praksh Singh served as MLA for Zamania from 2012 to 2017 and again from 2022.

[[Bharatiya Janta Party]] candidate [[Sunita (politician)|Sunita Singh]] 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 name="election2017">{{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>{{Cite web|url=https://resultuniversity.com/election/zamania-uttar-pradesh-assembly-constituency|title=Zamania Assembly constituency Election Result - Legislative 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 name="election1991">{{cite web | url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/1991-election-results.html | title=Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1991 }}</ref> to establish [[BJP]]'s presence in the critical Assembly constituency. 1991 also was the first time when a female candidate <ref name="election1989">{{Cite web|url=https://resultuniversity.com/election/zamania-uttar-pradesh-assembly-constituency#1989|title = Zamania Assembly constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly constituency}}</ref> contested Zamania constituency and Chauhan was amongst the 10 female winners<ref name="election1991-1">{{cite web | url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/1991-election-results.html | title=Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1991 }}</ref> in a 425-member house.

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 name="election1996">{{Cite web|url=https://resultuniversity.com/election/zamania-uttar-pradesh-assembly-constituency#1996|title = Zamania Assembly constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly constituency}}</ref> 2002) & [[Omprakash Singh]] (won in 2012) in [[Mulayam Singh]] & [[Akhilesh Yadav]] governments.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |title=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:Politics of Ghazipur district]]

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