Zamania is a constituency of the

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covering the city of Zamania in the

Ghazipur district Ghazipur district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Ghazipur is the district headquarters. The district is part of Varanasi Division. The region of Ghazipur is famous mainly for the production of its unique ros ...

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History

Zamania is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 379 amongst 403 constituencies. Before the separation of

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from

, Zamania was numbered 232, amongst 425 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

Previous years

Raj Kumar Singh Gautam served as MLA for Zamania from 2007-2012, Om Praksh Singh served as MLA for Zamania from 2012-2017 and again from 2022.

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 Sunita Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...

candidate

Atul Rai Atul Rai is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from the Ghosi constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Hari narayan Rajbhar. He contested Lok Sabha Election with Bahujan Samaj Party's ticket and defea ...

by a margin of 9,264 votes. This was only the 2nd victory for

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since the party's formation, the 1st came in 28 years earlier when Sharda Chauhan won with only 24,402 votes polled for

in 1991 & defeated Ravindra Yadav of

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by a margin of 2,357 votes to establish

's presence in the critical Assembly constituency. 1991 also was the 1st ever time when a female candidate contested Zamania constituency and Chauhan was amongst the 10 female winners in a 425 member house. To highlight the importance of victory in critical Zamania constituency,

Kalyan Singh Kalyan Singh (5 January 1932 – 21 August 2021) was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He served twice as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Member of Parliament. He was the Chief minister of Utt ...

had awarded state planning and transport ministries with independent charge to Smt Chauhan in

Kalyan Singh ministry Kalyan Singh (5 January 1932 – 21 August 2021) was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He served twice as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Member of Parliament. He was the Chief minister of Utt ...

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 ...

continued the tradition by awarding cabinet berths to Kailash (won in 1996 by defeating Sharda Chauhan by a margin of 6,987 votes, 2002) & Omprakash Singh (won in 2012) in

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governments.

References

External links

* {{coord missing, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Politics of Ghazipur district