Bhojipura Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Bhojipura
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bareilly
Total electors	289,427 (2012)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shazil Islam Ansari
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Bhojipura Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Bareilly district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1956.^[1] After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 120.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Wards / Areas

Extent of Bhojipura Assembly constituency is KC Shergarh, Devraniya NP & Shergarh NP of Baheri Tehsil; KCs Bhojipura, Rithora, CB Ganj, Rithora NP, Dhaura Tanda NP & Pipalsana Chaudhdhari (CT) of Bareilly Tehsil.^[3]

Popular Village- Jadounpur is a village which was established in 1873 AD by two families, one of Bajajas (kade Ansari) and the other Chaudhdharis (unknown). Bajaj means one who sells clothes and Chaudhdhari is interested in politics; both these families are Ansari by caste and Muslims by religion. It is very popular for incremented marketing and business. Through origin traced by historians of 19th century, it was clearly observed that there were some intercaste groups of Rajput clans known as Jadon, who were the initial settlers in this village.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Name	Party	From	To	Days	Comments	Ref
01	01st Vidhan Sabha	–	–	Mar-1952	Mar-1957	1,849	Constituency not in existence	^[6]
02	02nd Vidhan Sabha	Baboo Ram	Indian National Congress	Apr-1957	Mar-1962	1,800	–	^[7]
03	03rd Vidhan Sabha	Harish Kumar Gangwar	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	Mar-1962	Mar-1967	1,828	–	^[8]
04	04th Vidhan Sabha	Harish Kumar Gangwar	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	Mar-1967	Apr-1968	402	–	^[9]
05	05th Vidhan Sabha	Bhanu Pratap Singh	Indian National Congress	Feb-1969	Mar-1974	1,832	–	^[10]
06	06th Vidhan Sabha	Harish Kumar Gangwar	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	Mar-1974	Apr-1977	1,153	–	^[11]
07	07th Vidhan Sabha	Hamid Raza Khan	Independent	Jun-1977	Feb-1980	969	–	^[12]
08	08th Vidhan Sabha	Bhanu Pratap Singh	Indian National Congress (I)	Jun-1980	Mar-1985	1,735	–	^[13]
09	09th Vidhan Sabha	Narendra Pal Singh	Indian National Congress	Mar-1985	Nov-1989	1,725	–	^[14]
10	10th Vidhan Sabha	Narendra Pal Singh	Janata Dal	Dec-1989	Apr-1991	488	–	^[15]
11	11th Vidhan Sabha	Kunwar Subhash Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party	Jun-1991	Dec-1992	533	–	^[16]
12	12th Vidhan Sabha	Harish Kumar Gangwar	Samajwadi Party	Dec-1993	Oct-1995	693	–	^[17]
13	13th Vidhan Sabha	Bahoran Lal Maurya	Bharatiya Janata Party	Oct-1996	May-2002	1,967	–	^[18]
14	14th Vidhan Sabha	Virendra Singh	Samajwadi Party	Feb-2002	May-2007	1,902	–	^[19]
15	15th Vidhan Sabha	Shazil Islam Ansari	Bahujan Samaj Party	May-2007	Mar-2012	1,762	–	^[20]
16	16th Vidhan Sabha	Shazil Islam Ansari	Ittehad-e-Millat Council	Mar-2012	Mar-2017	–	–	^[21]
17	17th Vidhan Sabha	Bahoran Lal Maurya	Bharatiya Janata Party	Mar-2017	Mar-2022	-	–
18	18th Vidhan Sabha	Shazil Islam Ansari	Samajwadi Party	Mar-2022	Incumbent

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Bhojipura
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Shahzil Islam Ansari	119,402	45.88
	BJP	Bahoran Lal Maurya	109,993	42.26
	BSP	Yogesh Patel	26,909	10.34
	INC	Sardar Khan	1,963	0.75
	NOTA	None of the above	1,373	0.53
	AAP	Dr. Mahender Pal Singh Rana ^[22]	610	0.23
Majority			9,409
Turnout
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2012

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 General Elections: Bhojipura
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IEMC	Shazil Islam Ansari	65,531	32.55	–
	SP	Virendra Singh Gangwar	47,583	23.63	–
	BJP	Bahoran Lal Maurya	34,281	17.03	–
		Remainder 16 candidates	53,932	26.78	–
Majority			17,948	8.91	–
Turnout			201,327	69.56	–
	IEMC gain from BSP		Swing

^[21]

Notable people

Bahoran Lal Maurya - MLA
Yogesh Patel - Block Pramukh: After not getting ticket from BJP, he resigned and joined BSP

References

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