About Ayodhya Assembly Constituency
Ayodhya is constituency No. 275 of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly.
It is situated in Faizabad district and comes under the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.
According to data with the Election Commission of India, Ayodhya has 3,16,722 registered voters. It has 1,71,217 male and 1,45,496 female registered voters besides nine registered voters in the Others category.
In the 2012 Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party (SP) won this constituency by a narrow margin of 5,405 votes. Tej Narayan Pandey, the winning Samajwadi Party candidate, got 55,262 votes. The nearest contender was Lallu Singh of the BJP who got 49,857 votes. The voter turnout was 60.72 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Ayodhya Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Ayodhya assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 2022 | 275 | Ayodhya | GEN | Ved Prakash Gupta | M | BJP | 1,13,414 | Tej Narayan Pandey | M | SP | 93,424 |
| 2017 | 275 | Ayodhya | GEN | Ved Prakash Gupta | M | BJP | 107014 | Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan Pandey | M | SP | 56574 |
| 2012 | 275 | Ayodhya | GEN | Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan Pandey | M | SP | 55262 | Lallu Singh | M | BJP | 49857 |
| 2007 | 118 | Ayodhya | GEN | Lallu Singh | M | BJP | 58493 | Indra Pratap Tiwari Urf Khabbu | M | SP | 52752 |
| 2002 | 118 | Ayodhya | GEN | Lalloo Singh | M | BJP | 51289 | Abhay Singh | M | BSP | 33429 |
| 1996 | 134 | Ayodhya | GEN | Lalloo Singh | M | BJP | 59658 | Jai Shankar Pandey | M | SP | 38463 |
| 1993 | 134 | Ayodhya | GEN | Lallu Singh | M | BJP | 58587 | Jai Shankar Pandey | M | SP | 49349 |
| 1991 | 134 | Ayodhya | GEN | Lallu Singh | M | BJP | 49206 | Jai Shankar Pandey S/O Bachha Ram | M | JP | 18806 |
| 1989 | 134 | Ayodhya | GEN | Jai Shankar Pande | M | JD | 31899 | Lallu Singh | M | BJP | 22826 |
| 1985 | 134 | Ayodhya | GEN | Surendra Partap Singh | M | INC | 21475 | Jai Shanker Pandey | M | JNP | 14092 |
| 1980 | 134 | Ayodhya | GEN | Nirmal Kumar | M | INC(I) | 33095 | Jaiswal Sri Bhagwan | M | BJP | 11309 |
| 1977 | 134 | Ayodhya | GEN | Jai Shanker Pandey | M | JNP | 24247 | Khatri Nirmal Kumar | M | INC | 23831 |
| 1974 | 134 | Ayodhya | GEN | Bed Prakash Agarwal | M | BJS | 18491 | Sri Ram Dwivedi | M | BKD | 18208 |
| 1969 | 136 | Ayodhya | GEN | Vishwanath Kapoor | M | INC | 19569 | Ram Narain Tripathi | M | BKD | 15652 |
| 1967 | 136 | Ayodhya | GEN | B. Kishore | M | BJS | 21279 | B. Singh | M | IND | 16974 |
Last Updated on January 24, 2023