Ayodhya Assembly constituency

Ayodhya is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Ayodhya in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1] It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 275 amongst 403 constituencies.

Key Information

Ayodhya
Constituency No. 275 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ayodhya
Lok Sabha constituency	Faizabad
Total electors	3,82,056
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ved Prakash Gupta
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022
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Bharatiya Janata Party member Ved Prakash Gupta is the incumbent MLA, who won in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Tej Narayan Pandey by a margin of 19,990 votes.^[2]

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Ayodhya^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ved Prakash Gupta	113,414	49.04	0.16
	SP	Tej Narayan Pandey	93,424	40.4	14.39
	BSP	Ravi Prakash	17,706	7.66	10.53
	NOTA	None of the above	1,240	0.54	0.18
Majority			19,990	8.64	14.55
Turnout			231,258	60.53	1.43
	BJP hold		Swing

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

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