Sarojini Nagar Assembly constituency

{{short description|Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh, India}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}

{{Use Indian English|date=November 2023}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| name = Sarojini Nagar

| mla = Rajeshwar Singh

| party = BJP

| latest_election_year = 2022

| state = Uttar Pradesh

| district = Lucknow

| reservation = None

| alliance = NDA

| loksabha_cons = Mohanlalganj

| type = SLA

| electors = 5,67,252

| map_image = 170-Sarojini Nagar.svg

| map_caption =

| constituency_no = 170

}}

Sarojini Nagar is one of the 403 assembly constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the area of Sarojini Nagar in the Lucknow district. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency.

Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 170 amongst 403 constituencies.

In 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rajeshwar Singh won the elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Abhishek Mishra by the margin of 56,186 votes. He is an ex-ED Joint Director IPS officer who has taken VRS from the service to contest the elections.{{Cite magazine |last=Pandey|first=Munish Chandra |date=11 March 2022 |title=BJP MLA Rajeshwar Singh: How an ED officer made the leap from law enforcement to lawmaker |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-polls-2022/story/rajeshwar-singh-wins-up-polls-from-ed-officer-to-bjp-mla-lucknow-1923980-2022-03-10 |magazine=India Today |access-date=14 March 2022}}

Members of Legislative Assembly

class="wikitable"

!Year

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

! colspan="2" |Party

1967

|Vijay Kumar Tripathi

| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |

| rowspan="3" |Indian National Congress

1969

|Chandra Bhanu Gupta

1974

|Vijay Kumar Tripathi

1977

|Chheda Singh Chauhan

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

|Janata Party

1980

|Vijay Kumar Tripathi

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

|Indian National Congress

1985

| rowspan="2" |Sharda Pratap Shukla

|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent (politician)}}" |

|Independent

1989

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

|Janata Dal

1991

|Vijay Kumar Tripathi

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

|Indian National Congress

1993

| rowspan="2" |Shyam Kishore Yadav

| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}" |

| rowspan="2" |Samajwadi Party

1996
2002

| rowspan="2" |Mohammad Irshad Khan

| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}" |

| rowspan="2" |Bahujan Samaj Party

2007
2012

|Sharda Pratap Shukla

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

|Samajwadi Party

2017

|Swati Singh

| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |

| rowspan="2" |Bharatiya Janata Party

2022

|Rajeshwar Singh

Election results

= 2022<ref name="UP assembly election results 2022: Check full list of winners2">{{cite news |last1=Hindustan Times |date=10 March 2022 |title=UP assembly election results 2022: Check full list of winners |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-election/up-election-result-2022-constituency-wise-leading-trailing-candidates-full-list-of-winners-sp-akhilesh-yadav-bjp-yogi-adityanath-congress-rld-election-news-today-karhal-gorakhpur-101646878144820.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317172852/https://www.hindustantimes.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-election/up-election-result-2022-constituency-wise-leading-trailing-candidates-full-list-of-winners-sp-akhilesh-yadav-bjp-yogi-adityanath-congress-rld-election-news-today-karhal-gorakhpur-101646878144820.html |archivedate=17 March 2023 |accessdate=17 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> =

{{Election box begin | title=2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar }}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Rajeshwar Singh|votes=1,60,626|percentage=49.07|change=+11.76}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Samajwadi Party|candidate=Abhishek Mishra|votes=1,04,440|percentage=31.9|change=+6.35}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Mohd. Jaleesh Khan|votes=33,356|percentage=10.19|change=-14.49}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Rudra Daman Singh|votes=19,711|percentage=6.02|change=-}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Aam Aadmi Party|candidate=Rohit Srivastav{{cite news |last1=Bhandari |first1=Shashwat |title=AAP announces 150 candidates for UP elections 2022 {{!}} Check complete list |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/elections/news/aap-releases-150-candidates-for-uttar-pradesh-polls-2022-check-full-list-2022-01-16-754742 |access-date=27 January 2022 |work=indiatvnews.com |date=16 January 2022 |language=en}}|votes=2,427|percentage=0.74|change=-}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=NOTA|votes=1,822|percentage=0.56|change=-0.10}}{{Election box majority|votes=56,186|percentage=17.17|change=+5.41}}{{Election box turnout|votes=3,27,373|percentage=|change=}}{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Bharatiya Janata Party}}{{Election box end}}

= 2017<ref name="Uttar Pradesh election results 2017: Full list of constituency-wise winners">{{cite news |last1=India Today |date=11 March 2017 |title=Uttar Pradesh election results 2017: Full list of constituency-wise winners |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/assembly-elections-2017/uttar-pradesh-assembly-election-2017/story/up-election-result-2017-counting-votes-constituencies-965093-2017-03-11 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317173224/https://www.indiatoday.in/assembly-elections-2017/uttar-pradesh-assembly-election-2017/story/up-election-result-2017-counting-votes-constituencies-965093-2017-03-11 |archivedate=17 March 2023 |accessdate=17 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> =

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

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Swati Singh|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes=1,08,506|percentage=37.31|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Anurag Yadav|party=Samajwadi Party|votes=74,327|percentage=25.55|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari)|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|votes=71,791|percentage=24.68|change=}}

{{Election box candidate|

|candidate = Rudra Daman Singh

|party = IND.

|votes = 20,607

|percentage = 7.08

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Sharda Pratap Shukla|party=Rashtriya Lok Dal|votes=4,489|percentage=1.54|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=None of the Above|party=None of the above|votes=1,926|percentage=0.66|change=}}

{{Election box majority||votes=34,179|percentage=11.76|change=}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=2,90,894|percentage=58.35|change=}}

{{Election box gain with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser = Samajwadi Party

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

= 2012 =

{{Election box begin | title=2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Sharda Pratap Shukla|party=Samajwadi Party|votes=67,601|percentage=28.88|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari)|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|votes=59,236|percentage=25.30|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Rudra Daman Singh|party=Rashtriya Swabhimaan Party|votes=41,386|percentage=17.68|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Virendra Kumar Tiwari|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes=29,510|percentage=12.61|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Gaurav Choudhry|party=Indian National Congress|votes=22,003|percentage=9.40|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Sher Bahadur Singh (Shera)|party=Apna Dal (Kamerawadi)|votes=2,581|percentage=1.10|change=}}

{{Election box majority||votes=8,365|percentage=3.58|change=}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=2,34,090|percentage=59.17|change=}}

{{Election box gain with party link|

|winner = Samajwadi Party

|loser = Bahujan Samaj party (mayawati)

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

= 2007 =

{{Election box begin | title=2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Mohammad Irshad Khan|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|votes=65,736|percentage=36.99|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Shyam Kishore Yadav|party=Samajwadi Party|votes=60,312|percentage=33.93|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Virendra Kumar Tiwari|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes=21,364|percentage=12.02|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Ajay Kumar Tripathi|party=Indian National Congress|votes=10,487|percentage=5.90|change=}}

{{Election box candidate|

|candidate = Lalloo Yadav

|party = JM

|votes = 3,434

|percentage = 1.93

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Bachan Singh Yadav|party=Rashtriya Swabhimaan Party|votes=1,952|percentage=1.10|change=}}

{{Election box majority||votes=5,424|percentage=3.06|change=}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=1,77,723|percentage=43.56|change=}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Bahujan Samaj Party

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

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