Allahabad North (Assembly constituency)

Allahabad North is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Allahabad North in the Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Allahabad North
इलाहाबाद उत्तरी
Constituency
for the Vidhan Sabha
District Allahabad
State Uttar Pradesh
Electorate 4,13,478 (2018)
Current constituency
Created 2017
Party Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA Harshvardhan Bajpai
Reservation None

Allahabad North is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 262 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Harshvardhan Bajpai who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Lagislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Anugrah Narayan Singh by a margin of 35,025 votes.[1]

Member of Legislative Assembly

Election Results

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Allahabad North
Party Candidate Votes % ±
BJP Harshvardhan Bajpai 89,191 51.48
INC Anugrah Narayan Singh 54,166 31.27
BSP Amit Srivastava 23,388 13.50
IND. Badal Chatterjee 980 0.57
IND. Dheeraj Kumar Agrawal 557 0.32
NOTA None of the Above 659 0.38
Majority 35,025 20.21
Turnout 1,73,242 41.90
BJP gain from INC Swing

References

  1. ↑ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 2017-08-25.

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