Azamgarh 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- ...
covering the city of Azamgarh in the
Azamgarh district
Azamgarh district is one of the three districts of Azamgarh division in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Etymology
The district is named after its headquarters town, Azamgarh. Azam, a son of Vikramajit, founded the town in 1665. Vikramajit ...
of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Azamgarh is one of the 5 assembly constituencies in the
Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 347 amongst 403 constituencies.
Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2022
2017
Samajwadi Party candidate
Durga Prasad Yadav
Durga Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician serving as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He is also a former transport minister and forest minister. He represents the Azamgarh constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member o ...
won in last Assembly election of
2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating
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
Akhilesh by a margin of 26,262 votes.
References
External links
Official Site of Legislature in Uttar Pradesh
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Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh
Azamgarh
Politics of Azamgarh district
Constituencies established in 1956
1956 establishments in Uttar Pradesh