Nighasan Assembly constituency

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Nighasan
Constituency No. 138 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictLakhimpur Kheri
Established1956
Total electors320,502 (2012)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Shashank Verma
PartyBJP

Nighasan Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur Kheri district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kheri Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1956.[1] After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 138.[2][3][4][5]

Wards / Areas[edit | edit source]

Extent of Nighasan Assembly constituency is Nighasan Tehsil; PCs Benoura, Mallbehar, Ram Nagar Bagha, Gulariya T. Amethi, Ramiya Behar, Sujanpur, Jungle Sujanpur, Semri, Chandpura, Sohariya, Tahara of Ramiya Behar KC & Dhaurahra NP of Dhaurahra Tehsil.

Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

# Term Name Party From To Days Comments Ref
01 01st Vidhan Sabha Thakur Karan Singh Indian National Congress Mar 1952 Mar 1957 1,849 – [6]
02 02nd Vidhan Sabha Surath Bahadur Shah Praja Socialist Party Apr 1957 Mar 1962 1,800 – [7]
03 03rd Vidhan Sabha Ram Charan Shah Bharatiya Jana Sangh Mar 1962 Mar 1967 1,828 – [8]
04 04th Vidhan Sabha Thakur Karan Singh Indian National Congress Mar 1967 Apr 1968 402 – [9]
05 05th Vidhan Sabha Feb 1969 Mar 1974 1,832 – [10]
06 06th Vidhan Sabha Ram Charan Shah Bharatiya Jana Sangh Mar 1974 Apr 1977 1,153 – [11]
07 07th Vidhan Sabha Janata Party Jun 1977 Feb 1980 969 – [12]
08 08th Vidhan Sabha Satish Ajmani Indian National Congress Jun 1980 Mar 1985 1,735 – [13]
09 09th Vidhan Sabha Indian National Congress Mar 1985 Nov 1989 1,725 – [14]
10 10th Vidhan Sabha Nirvendra Kumar Mishra Independent Dec 1989 Apr 1991 488 – [15]
11 11th Vidhan Sabha Jun 1991 Dec 1992 533 – [16]
12 12th Vidhan Sabha Samajwadi Party Dec 1993 Oct 1995 693 – [17]
13 13th Vidhan Sabha Patel Ramkumar Verma Bharatiya Janata Party Oct 1996 May 2002 1,967 – [18]
14 14th Vidhan Sabha R. S. Kushwaha Bahujan Samaj Party Feb 2002 May 2007 1,902 – [19]
15 15th Vidhan Sabha Krishna Gopal Patel Samajwadi Party May 2007 Mar 2012 1,762 – [20]
16 16th Vidhan Sabha Ajay Kumar Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party Mar 2012 May 2014 – – [21]
16 16th Vidhan Sabha Krishna Gopal Patel Samajwadi Party Sep-2014 Mar-2017 - By poll
17 17th Vidhan Sabha Patel Ramkumar Verma Bharatiya Janata Party Mar-2017 Sep- 2018 (died)
17 17th Vidhan Sabha Shashank Verma May 2019 Mar 2022 By poll
18 18th Vidhan Sabha Mar 2022 Incumbent

Election result[edit | edit source]

2022[edit | edit source]

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Nighasan[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shashank Verma 126,488 53.41 −0.11
SP R. S. Kushwaha 85,479 36.1 +5.40
BSP R. A. Usmani 15,392 6.5 −11.81
INC Atal Kumar Shukla 2,762 1.17 −7.02
Jan Adhikar Party Qamrul Huda 2,707 1.14
NOTA None of the above 2,191 0.93 −0.02
Majority 41,009 17.31 −5.51
Turnout 236,815 69.57 +2.71
BJP hold Swing

2019 bypoll[edit | edit source]

By-Elections, 2019: Nighasan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shashank Verma 120,269 53.52 +5.13
SP Mohammad Kaiyum 68,987 30.70 +3.08
INC Atal Kumar Shukla 18,402 8.19
IND Paramjeet Singh 8,053 3.58
SBSP Ashrafpal Dhangar 2531 1.13
Rashtriya Janwadi Party (Socialist) Amar Singh Chauhan 2,397 1.07
None of the Above None of the Above 2,130 0.95 −0.26
Majority 51,282 22.82 +2.05
Turnout 2,24,719 66.86 −0.97
BJP hold Swing

2017[edit | edit source]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Nighasan[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Patel Ramkumar Verma 107,487 48.39
SP Krishna Gopal Patel 61,364 27.62
BSP Girjashankar Singh 40,674 18.31
NISHAD Radheyshyam 2,470 1.11
NOTA None of the above 2,663 1.21
Majority 46,123 20.77
Turnout 222,147 67.83

2012[edit | edit source]

2012 General Elections: Nighasan[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ajay Kumar Mishra 75,005 36.39 −
SP R A Usmani 43,966 21.33 −
BSP Daroga Singh 35,798 17.37 −
Remainder 11 candidates 51,333 24.91 −
Majority 31,039 15.06 −
Turnout 206,102 64.31 −
BJP gain from SP Swing

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "DPACO (1956)" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "All MLAs from Assembly constituency". Elections.in. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Member list". Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly website. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "1951 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "1957 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "1962 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "1967 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "1969 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  11. ↑ "1974 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "1977 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "1980 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "1985 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  15. ↑ "1989 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  16. ↑ "1991 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  17. ↑ "1993 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  18. ↑ "1996 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  19. ↑ "2002 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  20. ↑ "2007 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "2012 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  22. ↑ "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 25 May 2022.
  23. ↑ "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2017". Election Commission of India. 16 August 2018.

External links[edit | edit source]

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