Bhagwantnagar Assembly constituency

Bhagwant Nagar Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India.^[1] It covers the city of Bhagwantnagar in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Bhagwantnagar
Constituency No. 166 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Unnao
Total electors	4,17,945
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ashutosh Shukla
Party	BJP
Elected year	2022

Bhagwantnagar is one of six assembly constituencies in the Unnao Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 166 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Year	Member[2]	Party
1957	Bhagwati Singh Visharad		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Dev Dutt		Indian National Congress
1967	Bhagwati Singh Visharad		Praja Socialist Party
1969			Indian National Congress
1974
1977	Devaki Nandan		Janata Party
1980	Bhagwati Singh Visharad		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Devaki Nandan		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991	Bhagwati Singh Visharad		Indian National Congress
1993	Devaki Nandan		Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Kripa Shankar Singh
2002	Natthu Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007	Kripa Shankar Singh
2012	Kuldeep Singh Sengar		Samajwadi Party
2017	Hriday Narayan Dikshit		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Ashutosh Shukla

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bhagwantnagar^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ashutosh Shukla
	AAP	Naveen Kumar Sharma [4]
	INC	Jang Bahadur Singh
	SP	Ankit Singh Parihar
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2017

• Hriday Narayan Dikshit (BJP) : 103,698 votes
• Shashank Shekhr SinghBahujan Samaj Party : 50,332^[5]

1977 Vidhan Sabha Elections

• Devaki Nandan (Janata Party) : 36,428 votes
• Bhagwati Singh Visharad (INC) : 25,817 ^[6]