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Zamania Assembly constituency

Coordinates: 25°25′N 83°34′E / 25.42°N 83.56°E / 25.42; 83.56
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Zamania
Constituency No. 379 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictGhazipur
Total electors3,87,810 (2014)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartySamajwadi Party
Elected year2022

Zamania is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Zamania in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

History

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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 Uttrakhand from Uttar Pradesh, Zamania was numbered 232, amongst 425 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Member[1] Party
1957 Vashishta Narain Sharma Indian National Congress
1962
1967 Ram Sunder Shastri Communist Party of India
1969 Vashishta Narain Sharma Indian National Congress
1974 Dharam Ram Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977 Janata Party
1980 Saheb Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Lalta Prasad Nishad Indian National Congress
1989 Ravinder Kumar Singh Independent
1991 Sharda Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party
1993 Jai Ram Kushwaha Bahujan Samaj Party
1996 Kailash Yadav Samajwadi Party
2002
2007 Raj Kumar Singh Gautam Bahujan Samaj Party
2012 Omprakash Singh Samajwadi Party
2017 Sunita Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2022 Omprakash Singh Samajwadi Party

Election results

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2022

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2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Zamania
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Om Prakash Singh 94,695 40.57
BJP Sunita Singh 72,239 30.95
BSP Mohammad Yusuf Farid Khan 53,303 22.84
Jan Adhikar Party Sahatu 5,258 2.25
NOTA None of the Above 1,675 0.72
INC False Khatoon 1,333 0.57
Majority 22,456
Turnout
SP gain from BJP Swing

Previous years

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

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sunita Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Atul Rai by a margin of 9,264 votes.[2] This was only the 2nd victory for BJP since the party's formation, the 1st came in 28 years earlier[3] when Sharda Chauhan won with only 24,402 votes polled for BJP in 1991 & defeated Ravindra Yadav of Janata Dal by a margin of 2,357 votes[4] to establish BJP's presence in the critical Assembly constituency. 1991 also was the 1st ever time when a female candidate [5] contested Zamania constituency and Chauhan was amongst the 10 female winners[6] in a 425-member house.

To highlight the importance of victory in critical Zamania constituency, Kalyan Singh had awarded state planning and transport ministries with independent charge to Smt Chauhan in Kalyan Singh ministry. Samajwadi Party continued the tradition by awarding cabinet berths to Kailash (won in 1996 by defeating Sharda Chauhan by a margin of 6,987 votes,[7] 2002) & Omprakash Singh (won in 2012) in Mulayam Singh & Akhilesh Yadav governments.

References

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  1. ^ "ZamaniaElection and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  2. ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Zamania Assembly constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly constituency".
  4. ^ "Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1991".
  5. ^ "Zamania Assembly constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly constituency".
  6. ^ "Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 1991".
  7. ^ "Zamania Assembly constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly constituency".
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25°25′N 83°34′E / 25.42°N 83.56°E / 25.42; 83.56