Pilibhit Assembly constituency

Pilibhit
Pilibhit
Constituency No. 127 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Pilibhit
Total electors	3,68,537 (2017)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Sanjay Singh Gangwar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2017

Pilibhit Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Pilibhit district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1956.^[1] After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 127.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Wards / Areas

Extent of Pilibhit Assembly constituency is KCs Nagar, Amaria, Jahanabad, Pilibhit MB, Gularia Bhindara NP & Jahanabad NP of Pilibhit Tehsil.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member^[6]
1957	Niranjan Singh	Indian National Congress
1962	Ram Roop Singh	Indian National Congress
1967	Babu Ram	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969	Ali Zaheer	Indian National Congress
1974	Dhirendra Sahai	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977	Dhirendra Sahai	Janata Party
1980	Charanjit Singh	Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Seyed Ali Ashrafi	Indian National Congress
1989	Riyaz Ahmad	Independent
1991	Balkrishna Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Balkrishna Gupta
1996	Raj Rai Singh
2000^	Balkrishna Gupta
2002	Riyaz Ahmad	Samajwadi Party
2007
2012
2017	Sanjay Gangwar	Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Sanjay Gangwar	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Pilibhit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sanjay Singh Gangwar	1,36,486	54.20	+32.97
	SP	Riyaz Ahmad	93,130	36.98	+9.61
	BSP	Arshad Khan	14,532	5.77	−19.71
	JSEP	Chandrasen	1,010	0.40	+0.40
	RKMP	Mohammad Yusuf Malik	989	0.39	+0.39
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,818	0.72	+0.72
Majority			43,356	17.23	+15.34
Turnout			2,51,842	68.34	+2.17
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	+26.83

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Pilibhit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Riyaz Ahmad	61,578	27.37
	BSP	Sanjay Singh Gangwar	57,343	25.48
	BJP	Satya Pal	47,771	21.23
	PECP	Azam Mir Khan	30,614	13.60
	INC	B. K. Gupta	12,422	5.52
	AITMC	Shravan Dutt Singh	5,733	2.55
Majority			4,235	1.89
Turnout			2,25,023	66.17
	SP hold		Swing