Pipraich (Assembly constituency)

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

Pipraich
Assembly Constituency
District	Gorakhpur
State	Uttar Pradesh
Electorate	3,86,459 (2017)
Lok Sabha Constituency	Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Current Assembly Constituency
Created	2017
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA	Mahendra Pal Singh
Reservation	None
Ex MLA	Rajmati Nishad (SP)
Most Successful Party	Indian National Congress (5 Times)

Pipraich is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 321 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Mahendra Pal Singh who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Aftab Alam by a margin of 12,809 votes.[1]

Member of Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	2nd Vidhan Sabha	Achhaiber Singh	Indian National Congress	April 1957	March 1962	1,800
02	3rd Vidhan Sabha			March 1962	March 1967	1,828
03	04th Vidhan Sabha	Madhukar Dighe	Samyukta Socialist Party	March 1967	April 1968	402
04	05th Vidhan Sabha	Hari Prasad Shahi	Indian National Congress	February 1969	March 1974	1,832
05	06th Vidhan Sabha	Madhukar Deghe	Bharatiya Kranti Dal	March 1974	April 1977	1,153
06	07th Vidhan Sabha		Janata Party	June 1977	February 1980	969
07	08th Vidhan Sabha	Kedar Nath Singh	Indian National Congress (U)	June 1980	March 1985	1,735
08	09th Vidhan Sabha	Sayed Javed Ali	Indian National Congress	March 1985	November 1989	1,725
09	10th Vidhan Sabha	Kedar Nath Singh	Janata Dal	December 1989	April 1991	488
10	11th Vidhan Sabha	Lallan Prasad Tripathi	Bhartiya Janata Party	June 1991	December 1992	533
11	12th Vidhan Sabha	Jitendra Kumar Jaiswal Urf Pappu Bhaiya	Independent	December 1993	October 1995	693
12	13th Vidhan Sabha			October 1996	March 2002	1,967
13	14th Vidhan Sabha			February 2002	May 2007	1,902
14	15th Vidhan Sabha	Jamuna Prasad Nishad	Bahujan Samaj Party	May 2007	March 2010	1,762
15		Rajmati Nishad	Samajwadi Party	March 2010	March 2012
16	16th Vidhan Sabha			March 2012	March 2017	1,829
17	17th Vidhan Sabha	Mahendra Pal Singh	Bhartiya Janata Party	March 2017	Incumbent	1236

Election Results

2017 Assembly Elections: Pipraich[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Mahendra Pal Singh	82,739	33.80	18.99
	BSP	Afatab Alam Urf Guddu	69,930	28.56	2.88
	SP	Amrendra Nishad	51,031	20.85	22.65
	Independent	Anita Jaiswal	31,073	12.69
		Remaining 15 Candidates	10,038	3.61
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,204	0.49	New
Majority			12,809	5.24	12.58
Turnout			2,46,015	63.66	3.94
Registered electors			3,86,459
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	9.70

2012 Assembly Elections: Pipraich[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SP	Rajmati Nishad	86,976	43.50
	BSP	Jitendra	51,341	25.68
	BJP	Radheshyam	29,617	14.81
	SBSP	Dildar Husain	5,948	2.97
	INC	Amarjeet	4,449	2.23
	RSBP	Mohd Mainuddin	3,700	1.85
	JD(U)	Lalji	2,757	1.38
	Independent	Sarvajit	1,412	0.71
	PECP	Surendra Kumar	1,149	0.57
		Remaining 21 Candidates	12,596	6.30
Majority			35,635	17.82
Turnout			1,99,945	59.72
	SP hold		Swing

References

1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
2. "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Results". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
3. "Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 June 2020.