Puranpur (Assembly constituency)

Puranpur Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Pilibhit district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Pilibhit (Lok Sabha constituency). First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1962 after the "DPACO (1961)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1961.[1] After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 129.[2][3][4][5]

Puranpur
Constituency
District	Pilibhit
State	Uttar Pradesh
Electorate	1997
Current constituency
Created	1961
Party	Samajwadi Party
MLA	GOPAL Krishna Saxena
Reservation	General

Wards / Areas

Extant of Puranpur Assembly constituency is KCs North, South, East, Jograjpur, PCs Amraiya Kalan, Keshopur T.Anandpur, Khamaria Patti, Chandupur, Takia Deenarpur, Puranpur Khas, Fazilpur of West KC, Kalinagar NP & Puranpur MB of Puranpur Tehsil.[3] Largest Village Sherpur Kalan.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Name	Party	From	To	Days	Comments	Ref
01	01st Vidhan Sabha	-	-	Mar-1952	Mar-1957	1,849	Constituency not in existence	[6]
02	02nd Vidhan Sabha			Apr-1957	Mar-1962	1,800		[7]
03	03rd Vidhan Sabha	Mohan Lal Acharya	Indian National Congress	Mar-1962	Mar-1967	1,828	-	[8]
04	04th Vidhan Sabha			Mar-1967	Apr-1968	402	-	[9]
05	05th Vidhan Sabha	Har Narayan	Bharatiya Kranti Dal	Feb-1969	Mar-1974	1,832	-	[10]
06	06th Vidhan Sabha	Harish Chandra	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	Mar-1974	Apr-1977	1,153	-	[11]
07	07th Vidhan Sabha	Baboo Ram Prabhati	Janata Party	Jun-1977	Feb-1980	969	-	[12]
08	08th Vidhan Sabha	Vinod Kumar	Indian National Congress (I)	Jun-1980	Mar-1985	1,735	-	[13]
09	09th Vidhan Sabha		Indian National Congress	Mar-1985	Nov-1989	1,725	-	[14]
10	10th Vidhan Sabha	Har Narayan	Janata Dal	Dec-1989	Apr-1991	488	-	[15]
11	11th Vidhan Sabha	Parmod Kumar	Bharatiya Janata Party	Jun-1991	Dec-1992	533	-	[16]
12	12th Vidhan Sabha	Virendra Mohan Singh	Janata Dal	Dec-1993	Oct-1995	693	-	[17]
13	13th Vidhan Sabha	Gopal Krishna	Samajwadi Party	Oct-1996	May-2002	1,967	-	[18]

13th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

1997 General Elections: Puranpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SP	Gopal Krishna Saxena	103,847	52.98	-
	BJP	Birendra Mohan	43,009	19.21	-
	INC	Sukh Lal	16,773	6.42	-
		Remainder 15 candidates	40,279	21.39	-
Majority			30,838	13.77	-
Turnout			253,908	65.97	-
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

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See also

• Pilibhit district
• Pilibhit (Lok Sabha constituency)
• Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Vidhan Bhawan

References

1. "DPACO (1961)" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
2. "Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
4. "All MLAs from Assembly Constituency". Elections.in. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
5. "Member list". Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly website. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
6. "1951 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
7. "1957 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
8. "1962 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
9. "1967 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
10. "1969 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
11. "1974 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
12. "1977 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
13. "1980 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
14. "1985 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
15. "1989 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
16. "1991 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
17. "1993 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
18. "1996 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
19. "2012 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved Dec 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)