Ayodhya Assembly constituency

Ayodhya is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ayodhya in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1] 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 No. 275 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ayodhya
Lok Sabha constituency	Faizabad
Total electors	3,82,056
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ved Prakash Gupta
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022

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.^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[3]	Party
1967	B. Kishore		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969	Vishwanath Kapoor		Indian National Congress
1974	Bed Prakash Agarwal		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977	Jai Shanker Pandey		Janata Party
1980	Nirmal Kumar		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Surendra Pratap Singh		Indian National Congress
1989	Jai Shanker Pandey		Janata Dal
1991	Lallu Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996
2002
2007
2012	Tej Narayan Pandey		Samajwadi Party
2017	Ved Prakash Gupta		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ayodhya^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ved Prakash Gupta	113,414	49.04	0.16
	SP	Tej Narayan Pandey	93,424	40.4	14.39
	BSP	Ravi Prakash	17,706	7.66	10.53
	NOTA	None of the above	1,240	0.54	0.17
Majority			19,990	8.64	14.55
Turnout			231,258	60.53	1.43
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ayodhya^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ved Prakash Gupta	107,014	49.2
	SP	Tej Narayan Pandey	56,574	26.01
	BSP	Mo Bazmi Siddeke	39,554	18.19
	BMP	Banshi Lal Yadav	5,661	2.6
	NOTA	None of the above	1,544	0.71
Majority			50,440	23.19
Turnout			217,488	61.96
	BJP gain from SP		Swing