Pilibhit District - Vidhan Sabha Constituencies

=Members of legislative assembly - Uttar Pradesh=

District Pilibhit has four constituencies in Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly with name Pilibhit city, Puranpur, Bisalpur and Barkhera. In 1951, Election Commission of India made Pilibhit city, Puranpur, and Bisalpur constituencies. In the year of 1967, all these three constituencies were cut short and a new constituency came into existence with name Barkhera, which is a SC reserve seat since inception.

Pilibhit Constituency

Pilibhit constituency is not a strong seat for any of the political party. Congress Party had its influence on this seat in the initial elections and won six elections. Bharatiya Janata Party won three elections with Ayodhya wave in 90's and two times was the nearest contesting party in 2002 and 2007. But Samajwadi Party has maintained its influence in the seat in both elections in the new century. Pilibhit seat has elected one woman candidate Smt. Raj Rai Singh (Wife of Ex IAS officer) in 1996 from BJP ticket. Apart from her, none of the Constituencies has elected any women candidate to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

Pilibhit Legislative Assembly Constituency Code = 41 [http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp]

Puranpur Constituency

Puranpur constituency is the only seat where Congress Party had its impact till 1989 election, although it won this seat four times and was the nearest contesting party for four times. At Initial elections, Socialist Party, Praja Socialist Party and Bharatiya Karnti Dal won this seat a few times. Janata Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party and Janata Dal has won this seat one time each. Bharatiya Janata Party have made this seat twice. No women candidate got elected from this seat yet.

Puranpur Legislative Assembly Constituency Code = 44 [http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp]

SoP indicates Socialist Party
PSP indicates Praja Socialist Party
BKD indicates Bharatiya Kranti Dal
BLD indicates Bharatiya Lok Dal
INC indicates Indian National Congress
BJS indicates Bharatiya Jana Sangh
JP indicates Janata Party
JD indicates Janata Dal
BJP indicates Bharatiya Janata Party
SP indicates Samajwadi Party
BSP indicates Bahujan Samaj Party
IND indicates Independent Condidate

All details are taken from Election Commision web site. [for further information please visit http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp]

ee also

Pilibhit - Lok Sabha Constituency
Pilibhit
Pilibhit Tiger Reserve

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