Suar Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Suar
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Rampur
LS constituency	Rampur
Total electors	268,889 (2012)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shafeek Ahmed Ansari
Party	Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Elected year	2023

Suar Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Rampur district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Rampur Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the delimitation order (DPACO - 1956) was passed in 1956. The constituency was assigned identification number 34 after "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed in the year 2008. Prior to 2008, this constituency was called Suar Tanda.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Wards / Areas

Extent of Suar Assembly constituency is KCs Tanda, Suar, Forest Rudarapur Range, Suar MB, Tanda MB & Maswasi NP of Suar Tehsil.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member^[5]
1957	Mahmood Ali Khan	Indian National Congress
1962	Mahmood Ali Khan	Indian National Congress
1967	Maqsood Hussain	Swatantra Party
1969	Rajendra Kumar Sharma	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1974	Syed Murtaza Alli Khan	Indian National Congress
1977	Maqbool Ahmad	Indian National Congress
1980	Balbir Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
1985	Nisar Husain	Indian National Congress
1989	Shiv Bahadur Saxena	Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996
2002	Nawab Kazim Ali Khan	Indian National Congress
2007		Samajwadi Party
2007^		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012		Indian National Congress
2017	Abdullah Azam Khan	Samajwadi Party
2022	Abdullah Azam Khan	Samajwadi Party
2023^	Shafeek Ahmed Ansari	Apna Dal (Soneylal)

Election results

2023 by-election

Shafeek Ahmed Ansari Apna Dal (S) candidate won by defeating Samajwadi Party's Anuradha Chauhan by a margin of 8,724 votes.^[6]

2023 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election: Suar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AD(S)	Shafeek Ahmed Ansari	68,630	50.81	+20.29
	SP	Anuradha Chauhan	59,906	44.35	−14.84
	PECP	Dr. Nazia Siddiqui	4,688	3.47	New
	NOTA	None of the above	579	0.43	−0.05
Majority			8,724	6.46	−22.21
Turnout			1,35,075
	AD(S) gain from SP		Swing

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Suar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Abdullah Azam Khan	126,162	59.19	+7.29
	AD(S)	Haider Ali Khan	65,059	30.52	New
	BSP	Adhyapak Shanker Lal	15,035	7.05	−13.54
	INC	Ram Raksha Pal Singh	1,139	0.53	New
	AAP	Asif Miya^[7]	780	0.37	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,031	0.48	−0.15
Majority			61,103	28.67	+2.78
Turnout			2,13,160
	SP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Suar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Abdullah Azam Khan	106,443	51.90	+22.92
	BJP	Laxmi Saini	53,347	26.01	+0.97
	BSP	Nawab Kazim Ali Khan	42,233	20.59	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,283	0.63	N/A
Majority			53,096	25.89	+17.67
Turnout			2,05,962	69.59%	+7.57
	SP gain from INC		Swing

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Suar^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Nawab Kazim Ali Khan	55,469	33.26	−
	BJP	Laxmi Saini	41,754	25.04	−
	SP	Abdul Ghafoor Engineer	37,828	22.68	−
		Remainder 12 candidates	31,725	19.03	−
Majority			13,715	8.22	−
Turnout			1,66,776	62.02	−
	INC hold		Swing

References

^ "DPACO (1956)". Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
^ "Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
^ "All MLAs from Assembly constituency". Elections.in. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
^ "SuarElection and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ ThePrint (13 May 2023). "Apna Dal (S) candidate Shafeek Ahmed Ansari wins Suar assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh bypolls". Archived from the original on 14 May 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^ Bhandari, Shashwat (16 January 2022). "AAP announces 150 candidates for UP elections 2022 | Check complete list". indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
^ "2012 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 19 September 2015.