Pindra Assembly constituency

Pindra
Constituency No. 384 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Varanasi
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Avadhesh Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022

Pindra is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Varanasi district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency. Pindra Assembly constituency came into existence in 2008 as a result of the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008".^[1][2][3]

Wards / Areas

Pindra assembly constituency comprises the following Wards / areas.

#	Name	Reserved for	Comments
01	Pindra	None
02	Anei	None
03	Basani	None
04	Bahutara	None
05	Bhanpur	None
06	Baikunthpur	None
07	Murdi	None
08	Nahiya	None
09	Baragaon of Harahaua KC	None
10	Baragaon CT of Pindra Tehsil	None

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Ajay Rai		Indian National Congress
2017	Avadhesh Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pindra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Avadhesh Singh	84,325	38.23	−6.11
	BSP	Babulal	48,766	22.11	−4.20
	INC	Ajay Rai	48,248	21.88	−1.70
	AD(K)	Rajesh Kumar Singh	33,020	14.97	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,576	1.17	−0.20
	AAP	Amarnath Singh	1,984	0.90	New
Majority			2,20,547	16.12
Turnout			3,73,472	59.05	−0.55
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pindra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Avadhesh Singh	90,614	44.34	+42.50
	BSP	Babulal	53,765	26.31	+2.11
	INC	Ajay Rai	48,189	23.58	−5.73
	CPI	Shyamlal Singh	2,672	1.31	+0.41
	IND.	Shriprakash Mishra	1,319	0.65	+0.65
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,889	1.41	+1.41
Majority			36,849	18.03	+12.92
Turnout			2,04,375	59.67	+3.28
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+15.03

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pindra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajay Rai	52,863	29.31	−
	BSP	Jai Prakash	43,645	24.2	−
	AD	Sunil Patel	40,330	22.4	−
		Remainder eleven candidates	43,367	24.0	−
Majority			9,218	5.11	−
Turnout			180,343	56.4	−
	INC win (new seat)

See also

• Pindra Tehsil
• Varanasi
• Government of Uttar Pradesh
• List of Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

References

1. "Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
2. "Delimitation Order: 53-55" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 January 2018.

External links

• "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.