About Nighasan Assembly Constituency

Nighasan is constituency No. 138 of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly.It is situated in Lakhimpur district and comes under the Kheri Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Nighasan has 3,20,502 registered voters. It comprises 1,72,627 male, 1,47,867 female registered voters and eight registered voters in the Others category.

The BJP won this constituency by a whopping margin of 31,039 votes in the 2012 Assembly elections. Ajay Kumar Mishra, the winning BJP candidate, got 75,005 votes. The nearest contender was R.A. Usmani of Samajwadi Party who got 43,966 votes. The voter turnout was 64.31 %.

About Nighasan Assembly (Vidha Sabha) Constituency – Bye Elections 2014

The Nighasan Assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh will go for by-polls on September 13, 2014. The Vidhan Sabha seat fell vacant because the sitting MLA Ajay Kumar Mishra from BJP won the Lok Sabha general elections 2014 from the Kheri constituency. In these 2014 by-polls Shiv Bhagwan from Congress, Ram Kumar Verma from BJP, and Krishna Gopal Patel from Samajwadi Party will contest the election for the Nighasan MLA seat. Apart from these three candidates, a total of 7 nominations have been filed for the Nighasan bye-polls.Recently Nighasan witnessed heavy rains leading to floods which has urged several political parties to request for a postponement of the by-polls. However, the by-polls will still take place on September 13 only as the conditions of the area has improved.

The last Assembly Election in the constituency which were held in 2012 and BJP’s Ajay Kumar Mishra had won the MLA seat after defeating R A Usmani of SP.

Nighasan, which has over 3 lakh electors. The major issues and the agendas which are on every contender’s minds are the re-building of villages and roads and helping the residents of the area who have been displaced due to floods.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Nighasan Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Nighasan assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2017	138	Nighasan	GEN	Patel Ramkumar Verma	M	BJP	107487	Krishna Gopal Patel	M	SP	61364
2014	By Polls	Nighasan	GEN	Krishana Gopal Patel	M	SP	130402	130402	M	BJP	84426
2012	138	Nighasan	GEN	Ajay	M	BJP	75005	R A Usmani	M	SP	43966
2007	56	Nighasan	GEN	Krishna Gopal Patel	M	SP	52867	Ajay Kumar Teni	M	BJP	50067
2002	56	Nighasan	GEN	R.S. Kushwaha	M	BSP	44367	Krishna Gopal Patel	M	SP	39981
1996	72	Nighasan	GEN	Ram Kumar Verma	M	BJP	82312	Satish Ajmani	M	INC	66224
1993	72	Nighasan	GEN	Nirvendra Kumar Munna	M	SP	47397	Ram Charan Shah	M	BJP	46649
1991	72	Nighasan	GEN	Nirvendra Kumar	M	IND	27704	Ram Asrey	M	BJP	26221
1989	72	Nighasan	GEN	Nirvendra Kumar	M	IND	37036	Satish Ajmani	M	INC	21193
1985	72	Nighasan	GEN	Satish Ajmani	M	INC	38840	Ram Asrey	M	BJP	24619
1980	72	Nighasan	GEN	Satish Ajmani	M	INC(I)	18707	Ram Asray	M	IND	16327
1977	72	Nighasan	GEN	Ram Charan Shah	M	JNP	26364	Ram Asrey	M	INC	20124
1974	72	Nighasan	GEN	Ramcharan Shah	M	BJS	26866	Ajit Singh	M	INC	19571
1969	72	Nighasan	GEN	Karan Singh	M	INC	18956	Ram Charan Shah	M	BJS	18563
1967	72	Nighasan	GEN	K. Singh	M	INC	17682	R. C. SHAH	M	BJS	14829
1962	68	Nighasan	GEN	Ram Charan Shah	M	JS	21419	Karan Singh	M	INC	12458
1957	338	Nighasan	GEN	Surath Bahadur Shah	M	PSP	16193	Karan Singh	M	INC	10864