Kursi 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 Kursi in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Kursi is one of five assembly constituencies in the

Barabanki Lok Sabha constituency Barabanki Lok Sabha constituency (formerly known as Bara Banki Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Assembly segments Presently, Barabanki Lok Sabha constitue ...

. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 266 amongst 403 constituencies.

Election results

2022

2017

Bharatiya Janta 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 Sakendra Pratap Verma won the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating

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 ...

candidate

Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai is an Indian politician and a member of 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh representing Ram Nagar since March 2022. He is a member of the Samajwadi Party. Kidwai had previously represented Masauli as a member of B ...

by a margin of 28,679 votes.

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