Ayodhya (Assembly constituency)

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Ayodhya
Constituency
for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
DistrictAyodhya
StateUttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created2017
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
MLAVed Prakash Gupta
ReservationNone

Ayodhya is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ayodhya in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 275 amongst 403 constituencies.

Bharatiya Janta Party member Ved Prakash Gupta is the MLA, who won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Tej Narayan Pandey by a margin of 50,440 votes.[1]

Election Result[edit]

2017 General Elections[edit]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ayodhya
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ved Prakash Gupta 1,07,014 49.56
SP Tej Narayan Pandey 56,574 26.20
BSP Mo Bazmi Siddeke 39,554 18.32
BMP Banshi Lal Yadav 5,661 2.62
AP Sushil Jaiswal 1,635 0.76
Majority 50,440 23.20
Turnout 2,17,642 62.01
BJP gain from SP Swing

References[edit]

  1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.