Dhanghata | |
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Constituency No. 314 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | North India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Sant Kabir Nagar |
Total electors | 357,096 (2017) |
Reservation | SC |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
Elected year | 2022 |
Dhanghata is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Dhanghata in the Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 314 amongst 403 constituencies.
Since 2017, Bharatiya Janta Party member Sriram Chauhan is the MLA, who won in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Agloo Prasad by a margin of 16,909 votes.[1]