Dhanghata (Assembly constituency)

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]

Member of the Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	16th Vidhan Sabha	Alagoo Prasad Chauhan	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	[1]
02	17th Vidhan Sabha	Sriram Chauhan	Bhartiya Janata Party	March 2017	Incumbent	1400	[1]

2017 General Elections: Dhanghata (SC)[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sriram Chauhan	79,572	40.11
	SP	Algoo Prasad Chauhan	62,663	31.58
	BSP	Neel Mani	51,938	26.18
	NOTA	None Of The Above	1,871	0.94	0.94
		Remainder 5 candidates	4,231	2.11
Majority			16,909	8.44
Turnout			2,00,275	56.08
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2012 General Elections: Dhanghata (SC)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Algoo Prasad Chauhan	66,337	35.55	35.55
	BSP	Ram Sidhare	51,388	27.54	27.54
	BJP	Neel Mani	40,491	21.70	21.70
	PECP	Surendra Kumar	9,660	5.18	5.18
	INC	Archana Mahatam	9,293	4.98	4.98
	SBSP	Om Hari	3,726	2.00	2.00
		Reminder 5 Candidates	5,725	3.07
Majority			14,949	8.01	8.01
Turnout			1,86,620	55.30	55.30
	SP win (new seat)

"Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
"Uttar Pradesh 2017 Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
"Uttar Pradesh 2012 Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2018.

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