Ayodhya Assembly constituency

Ayodhya is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ayodhya and Faizabad in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 275 amongst 403 constituencies.

Ayodhya
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictAyodhya
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Ved Prakash Gupta Ji
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
Elected year2022

Bharatiya Janata Party member Ved Prakash Gupta is the incumbent MLA, who won in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Tej Narayan Pandey by a margin of 19,990 votes.[1]

Election Result

2022

Samajwadi Party candidate "Tej Narayan Pandey" received 40.40% (93,424) votes, Increase14.39 from 2017

2017 General Elections

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ayodhya
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ved Prakash Gupta 1,07,014 49.56
SP Tej Narayan Pandey 56,574 26.20
BSP Mo Bazmi Siddeke 39,554 18.32
BMP Banshi Lal Yadav 5,661 2.62
AP Sushil Jaiswal 1,635 0.76
Majority 50,440 23.20
Turnout 2,17,642 62.01
BJP gain from SP Swing

References

  1. "Assembly result 2022". Elections.in. Retrieved 12 March 2022.


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