Kursi Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kursi is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kursi in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
| Kursi | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 266 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Barabanki |
| Total electors | 3,95,071 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Kursi is one of five assembly constituencies in the Barabanki Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 266 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Fareed Mahfooj Kidwai[1] | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017[2] | Sakendra Pratap Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022[3] | |||
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sakendra Pratap Verma | 118,720 | 41.15% | ||
| SP | Rakesh Kumar Verma | 1,18,503 | 41.07% | ||
| BSP | Meeta Gautam | 35,561 | 12.33% | ||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,723 | 0.60% | ||
| Majority | 217 | 0.075% | |||
| Turnout | 2,88,519 | 73.03% | |||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sakendra Pratap Verma won the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai by a margin of 28,679 votes.[4]
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