Goshainganj is a constituency of the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...

covering the city of Goshainganj in the

Faizabad district Faizabad district, officially Ayodhya district, is one of the 75 districts of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city of Ayodhya, which is believed to be the birth place of Hindu deity Rama, is the administrative headquarters of the district. ...

of Uttar Pradesh, India. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 276 amongst 403 constituencies.

Election results

2022

The constituency was represented in the Legislative Assembly by

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as w ...

member Abhay Singh, who won in the 2022 elections, defeating

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

candidate Aarti Tiwari by a margin of 13,079 votes.

References

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* Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh {{UttarPradesh-geo-stub