Nighasan Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Nighasan
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Lakhimpur Kheri
Established	1956
Total electors	320,502 (2012)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shashank Verma
Party	BJP

Nighasan Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur Kheri district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kheri 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 138.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Wards / Areas

Extent of Nighasan Assembly constituency is Nighasan Tehsil; PCs Benoura, Mallbehar, Ram Nagar Bagha, Gulariya T. Amethi, Ramiya Behar, Sujanpur, Jungle Sujanpur, Semri, Chandpura, Sohariya, Tahara of Ramiya Behar KC & Dhaurahra NP of Dhaurahra Tehsil.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Name	Party	From	To	Days	Comments	Ref
01	01st Vidhan Sabha	Thakur Karan Singh	Indian National Congress	Mar-1952	Mar-1957	1,849	-	^[6]
02	02nd Vidhan Sabha	Surath Bahadur Shah	Praja Socialist Party	Apr-1957	Mar-1962	1,800	-	^[7]
03	03rd Vidhan Sabha	Ram Charan Shah	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	Mar-1962	Mar-1967	1,828	-	^[8]
04	04th Vidhan Sabha	Thakur Karan Singh	Indian National Congress	Mar-1967	Apr-1968	402	-	^[9]
05	05th Vidhan Sabha	Thakur Karan Singh	Indian National Congress	Feb-1969	Mar-1974	1,832	-	^[10]
06	06th Vidhan Sabha	Ram Charan Shah	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	Mar-1974	Apr-1977	1,153	-	^[11]
07	07th Vidhan Sabha	Ram Charan Shah	Janata Party	Jun-1977	Feb-1980	969	-	^[12]
08	08th Vidhan Sabha	Satish Ajmani	Indian National Congress (I)	Jun-1980	Mar-1985	1,735	-	^[13]
09	09th Vidhan Sabha	Satish Ajmani	Indian National Congress	Mar-1985	Nov-1989	1,725	-	^[14]
10	10th Vidhan Sabha	Nirvendra Kumar Mishra	Independent	Dec-1989	Apr-1991	488	-	^[15]
11	11th Vidhan Sabha		Independent	Jun-1991	Dec-1992	533	-	^[16]
12	12th Vidhan Sabha		Samajwadi Party	Dec-1993	Oct-1995	693	-	^[17]
13	13th Vidhan Sabha	Ram Kumar Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	Oct-1996	May-2002	1,967	-	^[18]
14	14th Vidhan Sabha	R. S. Kushwaha	Bahujan Samaj Party	Feb-2002	May-2007	1,902	-	^[19]
15	15th Vidhan Sabha	Krishna Gopal Patel	Samajwadi Party	May-2007	Mar-2012	1,762	-	^[20]
16	16th Vidhan Sabha	Ajay Kumar Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party	Mar-2012	May-2014	-	-	^[21]
16	16th Vidhan Sabha By Poll	Krishna Gopal Patel	Samajwadi Party	Sep-2014	Mar-2017	-	-
17	17th Vidhan Sabha	Patel Ramkumar Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	Mar-2017	Sep- 2018 (died)
17	17th Vidhan Sabha	Shashank Verma		May 2019	Mar 2022		By poll
18	18th Vidhan Sabha	Shashank Verma		Mar 2022	Incumbent

Election result

Bypoll 2019

By-Elections, 2019: Nighasan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Shashank Verma	1,20,269	53.51
	SP	Mohammad Kaiyum	68,987	30.70
	INC	Atal Kumar Shukla	18,402	8.19
	IND	Paramjeet Singh	8,053	3.58
Majority			51,282	22.82
Turnout			2,24,742	66.87
	BJP hold		Swing

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 General Elections: Nighasan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Mishra	75,005	36.39	-
	SP	R A Usmani	43,966	21.33	-
	BSP	Daroga Singh	35,798	17.37	-
		Remainder 11 candidates	51,333	24.91	-
Majority			31,039	15.06	-
Turnout			206,102	64.31	-
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

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References

^ "DPACO (1956)" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "All MLAs from Assembly constituency". Elections.in. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "Member list". Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly website. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1951 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1957 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1962 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1967 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1969 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1974 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1977 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1980 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1985 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1989 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1991 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1993 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "1996 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "2002 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ "2007 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b "2012 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 17 December 2015.