| Vishwanathganj | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 247 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Pratapgarh |
| Total electors | 3,99,623 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent Jeet Lal Patel | |
| Party | Apna Dal (Sonelal) |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Vishwanathganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Vishwanathganj in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1]
Vishwanathganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 247 amongst 403 constituencies.
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Raja Ram[2] | Samajwadi Party | |
| 2017 | Rakesh Kumar Verma[3] | Apna Dal | |
| 2022 | Jeet Lal Patel[4] | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD(S) | Jeet Lal Patel | 86,829 | |||
| SP | Saurabh Singh | 38,777 | |||
| Independent | Sanjay Pandey | 23,000 | |||
| Jan Adhikar Party | Mohd Ashfaq | 20,271 | |||
| INC | Prashant Singh | 1,933 | |||
| AAP | Pankaj Pal[5] | 1,484 | |||
| Majority | 48,052 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| AD(S) hold | Swing | ||||
Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Rakesh Kumar Verma won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating INC candidate Sanjay Pandey by a margin of 23,358 votes.[3]