Dhanghata is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Dhanghata in the Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 314 amongst 403 constituencies.

Since 2017, Bharatiya Janta Party member Sriram Chauhan is the MLA, who won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Agloo Prasad by a margin of 16,909 votes.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

18th Vidhan Sabha: 2022 General Elections

2017 General Elections: Dhanghata (SC)^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ganeh Chandra	83241	38.5
	SBSP	Alagu Prasad	72688	33.62
	BSP	Santosh	40693	18.82
	NOTA	None Of The Above	1,915	0.89
		Remainder 9 candidates	17685	8.17
Majority			10,553
Turnout			2,16,222
	BJP gain from SBSP		Swing

17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 General Elections

2017 General Elections: Dhanghata (SC)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sriram Chauhan	79,572	40.11
	SP	Algoo Prasad Chauhan	62,663	31.58
	BSP	Neel Mani	51,938	26.18
	NOTA	None Of The Above	1,871	0.94	0.94
		Remainder 5 candidates	4,231	2.11
Majority			16,909	8.44
Turnout			2,00,275	56.08
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 General Elections: Dhanghata (SC)^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Algoo Prasad Chauhan	66,337	35.55	35.55
	BSP	Ram Sidhare	51,388	27.54	27.54
	BJP	Neel Mani	40,491	21.70	21.70
	PECP	Surendra Kumar	9,660	5.18	5.18
	INC	Archana Mahatam	9,293	4.98	4.98
	SBSP	Om Hari	3,726	2.00	2.00
		Remainder 5 Candidates	5,725	3.07
Majority			14,949	8.01	8.01
Turnout			1,86,620	55.30	55.30
	SP win (new seat)