Ghatampur Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Ghatampur
Constituency No. 218 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Kanpur Nagar
LS constituency	Akbarpur
Total electors	319,148 (2020)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Saroj Kureel
Party	Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Elected year	2022

Ghatampur is one of 403 legislative assembly seats of the Uttar Pradesh.^[1] It is part of the Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency Lok Sabha constituency.

Overview

Ghatampur comprises KCs- Rewna, Patara, Ghatampur, Baripal, bhitargaon block, Narwal tehsil and Ghatampur Municipal Corporation of Ghatampur Tehsil.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

	Name	Party
1977	Ram Asrey Agnihotri	Janata Party
1980	Shivnath Singh Kushwaha	Indian National Congress
1985	Shivnath Singh Kushwaha	Indian National Congress
1989	Ram Asrey Agnihotri	Janata Dal
1991	Shivnath Singh Kushwaha	Indian National Congress
1993	Rakesh Sachan	Janata Dal
1996	Raja Ram Pal	Bahujan Samaj Party
2002	Rakesh Sachan	Samajwadi Party
2007	Ram Prakash Kushwaha	Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Indrajeet Kori	Samajwadi Party
2017	Kamal Rani	Bharatiya Janata Party
2020*	Upendra Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Saroj Kureel	Apna Dal (Sonelal)

*By Election

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ghatampur^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AD(S)	Saroj Kureel	81,727	41.60
	SP	Bhagwati Prasad Sagar	67,253	34.23
	BSP	Prashant Ahirwar	32,472	16.53
	INC	Raj Narayan Kureel	3,798	1.93
	JAP	Mamta Kushwaha	2,844	1.45
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,653	0.84
Majority			14,474	7.37
Turnout			1,96,466	60.55
	AD(S) hold		Swing

2020 (by election)

U. P. Legislative Assembly By Election, 2020: Ghatampur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Upendra Nath Paswan	60,405	38.36
	INC	Kripa Shankar Sankhwar	36,585	23.23
	BSP	Kuldeep Sankhwar	33,955	21.56
	SP	Indrajeet Kori	22,735	14.44
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,555	0.99
Majority			23,820	15.13
Turnout			1,57,790	49.24
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ghatampur^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Kamal Rani	92,776	48.52
	BSP	Saroj Kureel	47,598	24.89
	INC	Nandram Sonkar	40,465	21.16
	NISHAD	Rajendra	2,813	1.47
	BSCP	Ramjeevan	2,016	1.05
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,160	1.13
Majority			45,178	23.63
Turnout			1,91,226	61.90
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2012

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Ghatampur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Indrajeet Kori	50,669	28.54
	BSP	Saroj Kureel	49,969	28.15
	INC	Nandram Sonkar	42,772	24.09
	BJP	Geeta Devi	23,472	13.22
	IND.	Dinesh Kumar Sonkar	1,765	0.99
Majority			700	0.39
Turnout			1,77,538	58.23
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

2007

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007: Ghatampur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BSP	Ram Prakash Kushwaha	65,793	47.32
	SP	Rakesh Sachan	63,316	45.54
	IND.	Hari Nath Singh	3,220	2.32
	RLD	Vimlesh Pathak	2,143	1.54
	AD	Ashok Yadav	1,592	1.14
Majority			2,477	1.78
Turnout			1,39,037	54.79
	BSP gain from SP		Swing

2002

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2002: Ghatampur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Rakesh Sachan	44,108	33.76
	BSP	Raja Ram Pal	36,852	28.20
	INC	Shivnath Singh Kushwaha	26,224	20.07
	AD	Vijay Sachan	10,505	8.04
	RLD	Vimlesh Pathak	7,724	5.91
Majority			7,256	5.56
Turnout			1,30,670	56.21
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017
Kanpur Dehat Lok Sabha Constituency Summary
Party	Seats won	Seat change
Bharatiya Janata Party	5	4
Samajwadi Party	0	4
Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0
Indian National Congress	0	0

References

^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ Ghatampur Assembly constituency
^ "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
^ "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.