Menhdawal (Assembly constituency)

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Menhdawal is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Menhdawal in the Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Menhdawal
Constituency
DistrictSant Kabir Nagar
StateUttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created2017
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
MLARakesh Singh Baghel
ReservationNone

Menhdawal is one of five assembly constituencies in the Sant Kabir Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 312 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Rakesh Singh Baghel who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Anil Kumar Tripathi by a margin of 42,914 votes.[1][2][3]

Member of Legislative Assembly (MLAs)[edit]

# Term Member of Legislative Assembly Party From To Days Comment
01 3rd Vidhan Sabha Sucheta Kripalani Indian National Congress March 1962 March 1967 1,828
02 4th Vidhan Sabha Chandra Sekhar Singh Bhartiya Jana Sangh March 1967 April 1968 402
03 5th Vidhan Sabha Lalsa Prasad Indian National Congress February 1969 March 1974 1,831
04 6th Vidhan Sabha Chandra Sekhar Singh Bhartiya Jana Sangh March 1974 April 1977 1,153
05 07th Vidhan Sabha Janata Party June 1977 February 1980 969
06 08th Vidhan Sabha Mohd Nabi Khan Indian National Congress (U) June 1980 March 1985 1,735
07 09th Vidhan Sabha Afsar-U-Ahmad Indian National Congress March 1985 November 1989 1,725
08 10th Vidhan Sabha Chander Shekhar Singh Bhartiya Janata Party December 1989 April 1991 488
09 11th Vidhan Sabha June 1991 December 1992 533
10 12th Vidhan Sabha December 1993 October 1995 693
11 13th Vidhan Sabha Abdul Kalam Samajwadi Party October 1996 March 2002 1,967
12 14th Vidhan Sabha February 2002 May 2007 1,902
13 15th Vidhan Sabha May 2007 March 2012 1,762
14 16th Vidhan Sabha Laxmikant March 2012 March 2017 1,829 [3]
15 17th Vidhan Sabha Rakesh Singh Baghel Bhartiya Janata Party March 2017 Incumbent 2529 [2]

Election Results[edit]

17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 General Elections[edit]

2017 General Elections: Menhdawal[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Rakesh Singh Baghel 86,976 39.15 +24.44
BSP Anil Kumar Tripathi 44,062 19.83 +3.84
SP Jai Chand alias Jairam Pandey 37,557 16.91 -10.13
PECP Mohammad Irfan 25,499 11.48 -7.81
AIMIM Mohd Tabish Khan 19,040 8.57 +8.57
RLD Mohd Akram Hussain 3,445 1.55 +1.55
NOTA None Of The Above 2,663 1.20 +1.20
Remainder 6 candidates 5,578 2.48 N/A
Majority 42,914 19.09 +11.34
Turnout 2,24,820 51.27 -0.29
BJP gain from SP Swing +8.96

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections[edit]

2012 General Elections: Menhdawal[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Laxmikant 56,107 27.04
PECP Anil Kumar Tripathi 40,030 19.29
BSP Mohd Tayyab 33,183 15.99
BJP Rakesh Singh Baghel 30,525 14.71
INC Madan Narayan Singh 20,966 10.10
JD(U) Chandra Sekhar Pandey 10,897 5.25
IND Rajendra Kumar 2,773 1.34
Reminder 12 Candidates 13,040 6.28
Majority 16,077 7.75
Turnout 2,07,521 51.56
SP hold Swing

References[edit]

  1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 November 2018.