Zamania Assembly constituency

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

Zamania ( ज़मानिया )
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictGhazipur
Total electors3,87,810 (2014)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartySamajwadi Party
Elected year2022

History

Zamania is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 379 amongst 403 constituencies. Before the separation of Uttrakhand from Uttar Pradesh, Zamania was numbered 232, amongst 425 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
2007 Raj Kumar Singh Gautam Bahujan Samaj Party
2012 Om Praksh Singh Samajwadi Party
2017 Sunita Singh Bharatiya Janta Party
2022 Om Praksh Singh Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Zamania
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SP Om Prakash Singh 94,695 40.57
BJP Sunita Singh 72,239 30.95
BSP Mohammad Yusuf Farid Khan 53,303 22.84
Jan Adhikar Party Sahatu 5,258 2.25
NOTA None of the Above 1,675 0.72
INC False Khatoon 1,333 0.57
Majority 22,456
Turnout
SP gain from BJP Swing

Previous years

Raj Kumar Singh Gautam served as MLA for Zamania from 2007-2012, Om Praksh Singh served as MLA for Zamania from 2012-2017 and again from 2022.

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sunita Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Atul Rai by a margin of 9,264 votes.[1] This was only the 2nd victory for BJP since the party's formation, the 1st came in 28 years earlier[2] when Sharda Chauhan won with only 24,402 votes polled for BJP in 1991 & defeated Ravindra Yadav of Janata Dal by a margin of 2,357 votes[3] to establish BJP's presence in the critical Assembly constituency. 1991 also was the 1st ever time when a female candidate [4] contested Zamania constituency and Chauhan was amongst the 10 female winners[5] in a 425 member house.

To highlight the importance of victory in critical Zamania constituency, Kalyan Singh had awarded state planning and transport ministries with independent charge to Smt Chauhan in Kalyan Singh ministry. Samajwadi Party continued the tradition by awarding cabinet berths to Kailash (won in 1996 by defeating Sharda Chauhan by a margin of 6,987 votes,[6] 2002) & Omprakash Singh (won in 2012) in Mulayam Singh & Akhilesh Yadav governments.

References

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