Machhlishahr (Assembly constituency)

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

Machhlishahr मछलीशहर
Constituency
District	Jaunpur
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Samajwadi Party
MLA	Jagdish Sonkar
Reservation	Schedule Caste

Machhlishahr is one of five assembly constituencies in the Machhlishahr (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 369 amongst 403 constituencies.

As of now, this seat belongs to Samajwadi Party candidate Jagdish Sonkar who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Anita Rawat by a margin of 4,179 votes.[1]

Member of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	2nd Vidhan Sabha	Mohd Rauf Jafri	Indian National Congress	April 1957	March 1962	1,800
02	3rd Vidhan Sabha	Kesari Prasad	Praja Socialist Party	March 1962	March 1967	1,828
03	4th Vidhan Sabha	Mohd Rauf Jafri	Indian National Congress	March 1967	April 1968	402
04	5th Vidhan Sabha	Moti Lal	Bharatiya Kranti Dal	February 1969	March 1974	1,832
05	6th Vidhan Sabha	Agha Zaidi	Indian National Congress	March 1974	April 1977	1,153
06	7th Vidhan Sabha	Arun Kumar		June 1977	February 1980	969
07	08th Vidhan Sabha	Keshri Prasad	Indian National Congress (Indira)	June 1980	March 1985	1,735
08	9th Vidhan Sabha		Indian National Congress	March 1985	November 1989	1,725
09	10th Vidhan Sabha	Jwala Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal	December 1989	April 1991	488	[1]
10	11th Vidhan Sabha			June 1991	December 1992	533
11	12th Vidhan Sabha			December 1993	October 1995	693
12	13th Vidhan Sabha		Samajwadi Party	October 1996	March 2002	1,967	[1]
13	14th Vidhan Sabha	Vinod Kumar Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	February 2002	May 2007	1,902
14	15th Vidhan Sabha	Subhash Pandey		May 2007	March 2012	1,762	[1]
15	16th Vidhan Sabha	Jagdish Sonkar	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	[1]
16	17th Vidhan Sabha			March 2017	Incumbent	1240	[1]

Election Results

17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 General Elections

2017 General Elections: Machhlishahr[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SP	Jagdish Sonkar	72,368	35.10	-
	BJP	Anita Rawat	68,189	33.07	-
	BSP	Sushila Saroj	52,796	25.61	-
	NISHAD	Ram Sevak	4,484	2.17	-
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,165	1.05
		Reminder 10 candidates	8,342	4	-
Majority			4,179	2.01	-
Turnout			2,08,344	57.06	-
	SP hold		Swing

References

1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
2. "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2018.