Kursi is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kursi in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Barabanki Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 266 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

ElectionNameParty
2012Fareed Mahfooj KidwaiSamajwadi Party
2017Sakendra Pratap VermaBharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kursi
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJPSakendra Pratap Verma118,72041.15−0.11
SPRakesh Kumar Verma118,50341.07+10.73
BSPMeeta Gautam35,56112.33−7.12
AIMIMKumail Asharaf Khan8,5412.96
INCShrimati Urmila Patel2,8030.97
NOTANone of the above1,7230.6+0.04
Majority2170.08−10.84
Turnout288,51973.03+2.9
BJP holdSwing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sakendra Pratap Verma won the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai by a margin of 28,679 votes.

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Kursi
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJPSakendra Pratap Verma108,40341.26
SPFareed Mahfooz Kidwai79,72430.34
BSPV.P.Singh Verma51,09119.45
PECPSarvar Ali8,3293.17
IndependentCh.Talib Najib Kokab4,3811.67
RLDAmar Singh2,4450.93
NOTANone of the above1,4600.56
Majority28,67910.92
Turnout262,73170.13

See also

External links

  • . eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India.

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