Purwa Assembly constituency

Purwa
Constituency No. 167 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictUnnao
Total electors4,15,472
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBJP
Elected year2022[1]

Purwa is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Purwa in the Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[2]

Purwa is one of six assembly constituencies in the Unnao Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 167 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Anil Singh who won in the Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Uttam Chandra by a margin of 26,483 votes.[3]

Anil Singh also won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Udayraj by a margin of 31061 votes.[4]

  1. ^ "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. ^ "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.