Pipraich Assembly constituency

Pipraich
Constituency No. 321 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gorakhpur
LS constituency	Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency
Total electors	3,86,459 (2017)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mahendra Pal Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2017

Pipraich is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Pipraich in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Pipraich is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 321 amongst 403 constituencies.

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Mahendra Pal Singh won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Aftab Alam by a margin of 12,809 votes.^[3]

2017 Assembly Elections: Pipraich^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mahendra Pal Singh	82,739	33.80	18.99
	BSP	Afatab Alam Urf Guddu	69,930	28.56	2.88
	SP	Amrendra Nishad	51,031	20.85	22.65
	Independent	Anita Jaiswal	31,073	12.69
		Remaining 15 Candidates	10,038	3.61
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,204	0.49	New
Majority			12,809	5.24	12.58
Turnout			2,46,015	63.66	3.94
Registered electors			3,86,459
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	9.70

2012 Assembly Elections: Pipraich^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rajmati Nishad	86,976	43.50
	BSP	Jitendra	51,341	25.68
	BJP	Radheshyam	29,617	14.81
	SBSP	Dildar Husain	5,948	2.97
	INC	Amarjeet	4,449	2.23
	RSBP	Mohd Mainuddin	3,700	1.85
	JD(U)	Lalji	2,757	1.38
	Independent	Sarvajit	1,412	0.71
	PECP	Surendra Kumar	1,149	0.57
		Remaining 21 Candidates	12,596	6.30
Majority			35,635	17.82
Turnout			1,99,945	59.72
	SP hold		Swing

• "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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