Basti Sadar Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Basti Sadar
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Basti
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mahendra Nath Yadav
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Basti Sadar is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Basti in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Basti Sadar is one of five assembly constituencies in the Basti Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 310 amongst 403 constituencies. Samajwadi Party candidate Mahendra Nath Yadav is MLA from this seat since 2022.^[4]

History

Constituency known as "Basti" renamed in 2008 as "Basti Sadar" ^[5]

Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From
01	7th Vidhan Sabha	Jagadamba Prasad Singh	Janata Party	1977
02	08th Vidhan Sabha	Almeloo Ammal	Indian National Congress (Indira)	1980
03	9th Vidhan Sabha	Almeloo Ammal	Indian National Congress	1985
04	10th Vidhan Sabha	Rajmani Pandey	Janata Dal	1989
05	11th Vidhan Sabha	Lakshmeshwar Singh	Janata Dal	1991
06	12th Vidhan Sabha	Jagdambika Pal	Indian National Congress	1993
07	13th Vidhan Sabha		All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)	1996
08	14th Vidhan Sabha		Indian National Congress	2002
09	15th Vidhan Sabha	Jitendra Kumar ^[a]	Bahujan Samaj Party	2007 ^[4]
10	16th Vidhan Sabha	Jitendra Kumar ^[a]	Bahujan Samaj Party	2012 ^[4]
11	17th Vidhan Sabha	Dayaram Chaudhary	Bhartiya Janata Party	2017 ^[4]
12	18th Vidhan Sabha	Mahendra Nath Yadav	Samajwadi Party	2022

^ Alias Nandu Chaudhary

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Basti Sadar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Ramesh Singh ^[6]

2017

2017 General Elections: Basti Sadar^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dayaram Chaudhary	92,697	45.13	+27.41
	SP	Mahendra Nath Yadav	50,103	24.39	+11.08
	BSP	Jitendra Kumar	49,538	24.12	-5.13
	RLD	Raja Ashwarya Raj Singh	4,152	2.02	+2.02
	NISHAD	Gauri Shankar	1,707	0.83	+0.83
	NOTA	None Of The Above	1,206	0.59	+0.59
		Remainder 9 candidates	7,219	3.49	N/A
Majority			42,594	20.61	+10.13
Turnout			2,06,622	59.41	+1.12
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing	+15.48

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 General Elections: Basti Sadar^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BSP	Jitendra Kumar	53,011	29.25
	INC	Abhishek Pal	34,008	18.76
	BJP	Harish Dwivedi	32,121	17.72
	PECP	Dayaram Chaudhary	23,709	13.08
	SP	Chandra Bhushan Mishra	23,369	12.89
	SBSP	Manoj Kumar Rajbhar	3,203	1.77
	Independent	Ajay Mohan Gandhi	1,899	1.05
		Remainder 13 candidates	9,926	5.48
Majority			19,003	10.48
Turnout			1,81,246	58.29
	BSP hold		Swing

References

^ "Know Constituencies of UP Assembly elections 2017: Basti Sadar". One india. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ "बस्ती सदर विधानसभा चुनाव 2018 परिणाम, उत्तर प्रदेश". NDTV India. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ "बस्ती सदर विधानसभा चुनाव के पिछले परिणामों पर एक नजर". Punjab Kesari. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
^ "151 - Basti Assembly constituency". eci.nic.in. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
^ "AAP UP List, 7 February 2022". Twitter. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
^ "Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
^ "Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 November 2018.