Milkipur Assembly constituency

{{Short description|Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}

{{Use Indian English|date=April 2019}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| name = Milkipur

| map_image = 273-Milkipur.svg

| state = Uttar Pradesh

| type = SLA

| constituency_no = 273

| district = Ayodhya

| loksabha_cons = Faizabad

| reservation = SC

| mla = Chandrabhanu Paswan

| party = {{Party index link|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| latest_election_year = 2025

| electors = {{formatnum:358203}}

}}

Milkipur Assembly constituency is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Milkipur in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India.{{Cite web|title=Constituencies {{!}} District Ayodhya - Government of Uttar Pradesh {{!}} India|url=https://ayodhya.nic.in/constituencies/|access-date=2021-08-13|language=en-US}}

Milkipur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency.{{cite web |url=https://upload.indiacode.nic.in/showfile?actid=AC_CEN_3_20_00030_200233_1517807324510&type=order&filename=Delimitation%20Order,2008.pdf |title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 |date=26 November 2008 |access-date= 24 June 2021}}

Members of the Legislative Assembly

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Member{{Cite web |title=Milkipur Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs |url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/milkipur.html |access-date= |website=Elections in India}}

! colspan="2" |Party

1967

|Ramlal Mishra

| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |

|Indian National Congress

1969

|Harinath Tiwari

| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}" |

|Bharatiya Jana Sangh

1974

|Dharam Chandra

| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |

|Indian National Congress

1977

| rowspan="3" |Mitrasen Yadav

| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |

| rowspan="3" |Communist Party of India

1980
1985
1989

|Brij Bhusan Mani Tripathi

| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |

|Indian National Congress

1991

|Mathura Prasad Tewari

|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |

|Bharatiya Janata Party

1993

| rowspan="2" |Mitrasen Yadav

|style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |

|Communist Party of India

1996

| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |

| rowspan="4" |Samajwadi Party

1998^

|Ram Chandra Yadav

2002

|Anand Sen Yadav

2004^

|Ram Chandra Yadav

2007

|Anand Sen Yadav

|style="background-color: {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}" |

|Bahujan Samaj Party

2012

|Awadhesh Prasad

|style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |

|Samajwadi Party

2017

|Baba Gorakhnath

|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |

|Bharatiya Janata Party

2022

|Awadhesh Prasad

|style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |

|Samajwadi Party

2025^

|Chandrabhanu Paswan

|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |

|Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

=2025 by-election=

{{Election box begin|

|title=Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election, 2025: Milkipur{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=Milkipur Assembly bypoll results 2025: BJP’s Chandrabhanu Paswan leads by over 22,000 votes against SP’s Ajit Prasad |url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/milkipur-assembly-bypoll-results-samajwadi-party-bjp-february-8-2025/article69194998.ece |access-date=8 February 2025 |publisher=The Hindu |date=8 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250208174049/https://www.thehindu.com/elections/milkipur-assembly-bypoll-results-samajwadi-party-bjp-february-8-2025/article69194998.ece |archive-date=8 February 2025 |language=en-IN}}{{cite news |title=Milkipur bypoll Results - February 2025 |url=https://results.eci.gov.in/AcResultByeFeb2025/candidateswise-S24273.htm |access-date=8 February 2025 |work= |publisher=Election Commission of India |date=8 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250208174225/https://results.eci.gov.in/AcResultByeFeb2025/candidateswise-S24273.htm |archive-date=8 February 2025 |language=en}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|candidate = Chandrabhanu Paswan

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = {{formatnum:146397}}

|percentage = {{formatnum:60.17}}

|change = {{increase}}17.97

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Ajeet Prasad|party=Samajwadi Party|votes={{formatnum:84687}}|percentage={{formatnum:34.81}}|change={{decrease}}13.59}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Santosh Kumar Chowdhary|party=Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)|votes={{formatnum:5459}}|percentage={{formatnum:2.24}}|change=new}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=None of the Above|party=None of the above (India)|votes={{formatnum:1361}}|percentage={{formatnum:0.56}}|change=0.35}}

{{Election box majority||votes={{formatnum:61710}}|percentage={{formatnum:25.36}}|change=}}

{{Election box turnout||votes={{formatnum:243317}}|percentage={{formatnum:67.92}}|change=}}

{{Election box gain with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser = Samajwadi Party

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

= 2022 =

{{Election box begin | title=2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Milkipur{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/14185-uttar-pradesh-general-legislative-election-2022/ |publisher=Election Commission of India |title=State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh |website=eci.gov.in |accessdate=4 March 2023}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Samajwadi Party

|candidate = Awadhesh Prasad

|votes = 103,905

|percentage = 48.40

|change = +19.0

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|candidate = Baba Gorakhnath

|votes = 90,567

|percentage = 42.20

|change = -1.30

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bahujan Samaj Party

|candidate = Mira Devi

|votes = 14,427

|percentage = 6.66

|change = -16.34

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Indian National Congress

|candidate = Neelam Kori

|votes = 3,166

|percentage = 1.46

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = None of the Above

|party = None of the above

|votes = 1,960

|percentage = 0.91

|change = +0.11

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 13,338

|percentage = 6.20

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 2,14,555

|percentage = 60.20

|change = +1.70

}}

{{Election box gain with party link|

|winner = Samajwadi Party

|loser = Bharatiya Janata Party

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

Samajwadi Party candidate Avdhesh Prasad pasi won in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Gorakhnath pasi by a margin of 14000 votes.{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/milkipur.html|title=Assembly result 2022|website=Elections.in|access-date=2022-03-10}}

= 2017 =

{{Election box begin | title=2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Milkipur}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|candidate = Baba Gorakhnath

|votes = 86,960

|percentage = 43.50

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Samajwadi Party

|candidate = Awadhesh Prasad

|votes = 58,684

|percentage = 29.4

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bahujan Samaj Party

|candidate = Ramgopal

|votes = 46,027

|percentage = 23.0

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = None of the Above

|party = None of the above

|votes = 2,727

|percentage = 0.80

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 28,276

|percentage = 14.3

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 1,97,139

|percentage = 58.5

|change =

}}

{{Election box gain with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser = Samajwadi Party

|swing = BJP

}}

{{Election box end}}

References

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