Zamania is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Zamania in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
History Zamania is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 379 amongst 403 constituencies. Before the separation of Uttrakhand from Uttar Pradesh, Zamania was numbered 232, amongst 425 constituencies.
Members of the Legislative Assembly YearMemberParty1957Vashishta Narain SharmaIndian National Congress19621967Ram Sunder ShastriCommunist Party of India1969Vashishta Narain SharmaIndian National Congress1974Dharam RamBharatiya Kranti Dal1977Janata Party1980Saheb SinghIndian National Congress (I)1985Lalta Prasad NishadIndian National Congress1989Ravinder Kumar SinghIndependent1991Sharda ChauhanBharatiya Janata Party1993Jai Ram KushwahaBahujan Samaj Party1996Kailash YadavSamajwadi Party20022007Raj Kumar Singh GautamBahujan Samaj Party2012Omprakash SinghSamajwadi Party2017Sunita SinghBharatiya Janata Party2022Omprakash SinghSamajwadi Party
Election results 2027
2022
2017
Previous years
Raj Kumar Singh Gautam served as MLA for Zamania from 2007 to 2012, Om Praksh Singh served as MLA for Zamania from 2012 to 2017 and again from 2022.
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sunita Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Atul Rai by a margin of 9,264 votes. This was only the 2nd victory for BJP since the party's formation, the 1st came in 28 years earlier when Sharda Chauhan won with only 24,402 votes polled for BJP in 1991 & defeated Ravindra Yadav of Janata Dal by a margin of 2,357 votes to establish BJP's presence in the critical Assembly constituency. 1991 also was the first time when a female candidate contested Zamania constituency and Chauhan was amongst the 10 female winners in a 425-member house.
To highlight the importance of victory in critical Zamania constituency, Kalyan Singh had awarded state planning and transport ministries with independent charge to Smt Chauhan in Kalyan Singh ministry. Samajwadi Party continued the tradition by awarding cabinet berths to Kailash (won in 1996 by defeating Sharda Chauhan by a margin of 6,987 votes, 2002) & Omprakash Singh (won in 2012) in Mulayam Singh & Akhilesh Yadav governments.
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