Chitrakoot (Assembly constituency)

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

Chitrakoot
Constituency
District	Chitrakoot
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay
Reservation	None

Chitrakoot is one of five assembly constituencies in the Banda (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 236 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Lagislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Veer Singh by a margin of 26,936 votes.[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Name	Party	From	To	Days	Comments	Ref
1	16th Vidhan Sabha	Veer Singh	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	-	[1]
2	17th Vidhan Sabha	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	Bharatiya Janata Party	March 2017	Incumbent	1236		[2]

Election Results

17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 Assembly Elections

Main article: Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh

2017 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	90,366	41.52	23.70
	SP	Veer Singh	63,430	29.14	6.64
	BSP	Jagdish Prasad Gautam	47,780	21.95	4.98
	CPI	Amit Yadav	3,378	1.55	0.80
	NISHAD	Ugrasen	2,679	1.23
	JAM	Chhedilal	2,543	1.17
	ABHM	Chandra Kishor Dwivedi	1,746	0.80
	RLD	Ashish Singh	1,237	0.57
	Independent	Shiva Kant Shastri	1,186	0.54
	BMP	Durgesh	1,147	0.53
	Independent	Satynarayan	1,136	0.52
	SWAJANPA	Chandan Singh	1,042	0.48
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,528	1.62	New
Majority			26,936	12.38	3.53
Turnout			2,21,199	62.02	1.47
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	5.74

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 Assembly Elections

Main article: Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh

2012 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SP	Veer Singh	65,267	35.78
	BSP	Ram Sevak	49,131	26.93
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	32,507	17.82
	INC	Pushpendra Singh	18,921	10.37
	CPI	Amit Yadav	4,291	2.35
		Remainder 8 candidates	12,308	6.74
Majority			16,136	8.85
Turnout			1,82,425	60.55
	SP win (new seat)

References

1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
2. "Chitrakoot Assembly Constituency Election Result". resultuniversity.com. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
3. "Rampur Maniharan Election Results 2017, Winner and Runner-up, Candidate list". elections.in. Retrieved 5 November 2018.