Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

Chitrakoot
Chitrakoot
Constituency No. 236 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Chitrakoot
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Anil Pradhan
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Chitrakoot is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Chitrakoot in the Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Chitrakoot is one of five assembly constituencies in the Banda Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 236 amongst 403 constituencies.

This seat belonged to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Veer Singh by a margin of 26,936 votes.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Name	Party	From	To	Days	Comments	Ref
1	16th Vidhan Sabha	Veer Singh	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	-	^[1]
2	17th Vidhan Sabha	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	Bharatiya Janata Party	March 2017	March 2022	2741		^[2]
3	18th Vidhan Sabha	Anil Pradhan	Samajwadi Party	March 2022	Incumbent

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Chitrakoot
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Anil Pradhan	104,771	43.23
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	83,895	34.62
	BSP	Pushpendra Singh	38,711	15.97
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,290	1.36
	Jan Adhikar Party	Avinash Chandra Tripathi	2,420	1.00
	CPI	Amit Yadav	2,151	0.89
	INC	Nirmala	2,148	0.89
		Rest of the candidates	~5,000	2.00
Majority			20,876
Turnout
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

2017 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	90,366	41.52	23.70
	SP	Veer Singh Patel	63,430	29.14	6.64
	BSP	Jagdish Prasad Gautam	47,780	21.95	4.98
	CPI	Amit Yadav	3,378	1.55	0.80
	NISHAD	Ugrasen	2,679	1.23
	JAM	Chhedilal	2,543	1.17
	ABHM	Chandra Kishor Dwivedi	1,746	0.80
	RLD	Ashish Singh	1,237	0.57
	Independent	Shiva Kant Shastri	1,186	0.54
	BMP	Durgesh	1,147	0.53
	Independent	Satynarayan	1,136	0.52
	SWAJANPA	Chandan Singh	1,042	0.48
	None of the Above	None of the Above	3,528	1.62	New
Majority			26,936	12.38	3.53
Turnout			2,21,230	62.03	1.48
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	5.74

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 Assembly Elections

2012 Assembly Elections: Chitrakoot^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Veer Singh Patel	65,267	35.78
	BSP	Ram Sevak	49,131	26.93
	BJP	Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	32,507	17.82
	INC	Pushpendra Singh	18,921	10.37
	CPI	Amit Yadav	4,291	2.35
		Remainder 8 candidates	12,308	6.74
Majority			16,136	8.85
Turnout			1,82,425	60.55
	SP win (new seat)