Chunar (UP) assembly election: date, result, candidates list and latest news

Chunar assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2017 assembly elections. In this constituency, the BJP’s Anurag Singh defeated his nearest rival, Jagtamba Singh Patel of Samajwadi Party (SP), by a margin of 62,228 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.

As per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008, Chunar is the constituency number 398 of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is an open constituency.

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It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency. Anupriya Singh Patel from Apna Dal (Sonelal) is the current Member of Parliament (MP) from the Mirzapur 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 Chunar assembly constituency by a margin of 20,708 votes. The winning SP candidate Jagtamba Singh Patel got 67,265 votes and the runner-up Ghanshyam (BSP) got 46,557 votes. The voter turnout was 61.31%.

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Quick facts about the Chunar assembly seat:

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Chunar, Mirzapur

Name of the winner, party: Anurag Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party

Lok Sabha constituency: Mirzapur

Top 3 candidates 2017: Anurag Singh (BJP), Jagtamba Singh Patel (SP), Anmol Singh (BSP)

Top 3 candidates 2012: Jagtamba Singh (SP), Ghanshyam (BSP), Om Prakash Singh (BJP)

Sitting MLA, party: Anurag Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in 2017: 62,228

Runner up name, party: Jagtamba Singh Patel, Samajwadi Party

Number of voters in 2017: 335,557

Percentage of votes polled in 2017: 64.57%