Ghorawal assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2017 assembly elections. In this constituency, the BJP’s Anil Kumar Maurya defeated his nearest rival, Ramesh Chandra of Samajwadi Party (SP), by a margin of 57,649 votes.
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The BJP won 312 of the 403 assembly seats in 2017, forming an absolute majority in the state assembly and out-powering the Samajwadi Party. The BJP chose Yogi Adityanath to be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) came second behind the BJP, winning just 47 assembly seats, Mayawati-led BSP was third with 19 seats and the Congress (INC) won mere seven seats.
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As per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008, Ghorawal is the constituency number 400 of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is an open constituency.
It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Robertsganj Lok Sabha constituency. Pakaudi Lal Kol from Apna Dal (Sonelal) is the current Member of Parliament (MP) from the Robertsganj Lok Sabha constituency.
In the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party had formed the government with 224 seats, the BSP was second, winning 80 seats, the BJP had won 47, and the INC 28.
In the Assembly elections 2012, the Samajwadi Party won the Ghorawal assembly constituency by a margin of 15,187 votes. The winning SP candidate Ramesh Chandra got 87,708 votes and the runner-up Anil Kumar Maurya (BSP) got 72,521 votes. The voter turnout was 64.52%.
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Quick facts about the Ghorawal assembly seat:
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Ghorawal, Sonbhadra
Name of the winner, party: Anil Kumar Maurya, Bharatiya Janata Party
Lok Sabha constituency: Robertsganj
Top 3 candidates 2017: Anil Kumar Maurya (BJP), Ramesh Chandra Dubey (SP), Beena Singh (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Ramesh Chandra (SP), Anil Kumar Maurya (BSP), Arun Kumar Singh (INC)
Sitting MLA, party: Anil Kumar Maurya, Bharatiya Janata Party
