# Nighasan Assembly constituency

Nighasan Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Lakhimpur Kheri district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Kheri Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1956. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 138.

## Wards / Areas

Extent of Nighasan Assembly constituency is Nighasan Tehsil; PCs Benoura, Mallbehar, Ram Nagar Bagha, Gulariya T. Amethi, Ramiya Behar, Sujanpur, Jungle Sujanpur, Semri, Chandpura, Sohariya, Tahara of Ramiya Behar KC & Dhaurahra NP of Dhaurahra Tehsil.

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| # | Term | Name | Party | From | To | Days | Comments |
| 01 | 01st Vidhan Sabha | Thakur Karan Singh | Indian National Congress | Mar-1952 | Mar-1957 | 1,849 | - |
| 02 | 02nd Vidhan Sabha | Surath Bahadur Shah | Praja Socialist Party | Apr-1957 | Mar-1962 | 1,800 | - |
| 03 | 03rd Vidhan Sabha | Ram Charan Shah | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | Mar-1962 | Mar-1967 | 1,828 | - |
| 04 | 04th Vidhan Sabha | Thakur Karan Singh | Indian National Congress | Mar-1967 | Apr-1968 | 402 | - |
| 05 | 05th Vidhan Sabha | Thakur Karan Singh | Indian National Congress | Feb-1969 | Mar-1974 | 1,832 | - |
| 06 | 06th Vidhan Sabha | Ram Charan Shah | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | Mar-1974 | Apr-1977 | 1,153 | - |
| 07 | 07th Vidhan Sabha | Ram Charan Shah | Janata Party | Jun-1977 | Feb-1980 | 969 | - |
| 08 | 08th Vidhan Sabha | Satish Ajmani | Indian National Congress (I) | Jun-1980 | Mar-1985 | 1,735 | - |
| 09 | 09th Vidhan Sabha | Satish Ajmani | Indian National Congress | Mar-1985 | Nov-1989 | 1,725 | - |
| 10 | 10th Vidhan Sabha | Nirvendra Kumar Mishra | Independent | Dec-1989 | Apr-1991 | 488 | - |
| 11 | 11th Vidhan Sabha | Nirvendra Kumar Mishra | Independent | Jun-1991 | Dec-1992 | 533 | - |
| 12 | 12th Vidhan Sabha | Nirvendra Kumar Mishra | Samajwadi Party | Dec-1993 | Oct-1995 | 693 | - |
| 13 | 13th Vidhan Sabha | Patel Ramkumar Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | Oct-1996 | May-2002 | 1,967 | - |
| 14 | 14th Vidhan Sabha | R. S. Kushwaha | Bahujan Samaj Party | Feb-2002 | May-2007 | 1,902 | - |
| 15 | 15th Vidhan Sabha | Krishna Gopal Patel | Samajwadi Party | May-2007 | Mar-2012 | 1,762 | - |
| 16 | 16th Vidhan Sabha | Ajay Kumar Mishra | Bharatiya Janata Party | Mar-2012 | May-2014 | - | - |
| 16 | 16th Vidhan Sabha By Poll | Krishna Gopal Patel | Samajwadi Party | Sep-2014 | Mar-2017 | - | - |
| 17 | 17th Vidhan Sabha | Patel Ramkumar Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | Mar-2017 | Sep- 2018 (died) | | |
| 17 | 17th Vidhan Sabha | Shashank Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | May 2019 | Mar 2022 | | By poll |
| 18 | 18th Vidhan Sabha | Shashank Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | Mar 2022 | Incumbent | | |

## Election result
### Bypoll 2019

By-Elections, 2019: Nighasan :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BJP | Shashank Verma | 1,20,269 | 53.51 |
| | SP | Mohammad Kaiyum | 68,987 | 30.70 |
| | INC | Atal Kumar Shukla | 18,402 | 8.19 |
| | IND | Paramjeet Singh | 8,053 | 3.58 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 51,282 | 22.82 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,24,742 | 66.87 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 General Elections: Nighasan :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Ajay Kumar Mishra | 75,005 | 36.39 | − |
| | SP | R A Usmani | 43,966 | 21.33 | − |
| | BSP | Daroga Singh | 35,798 | 17.37 | − |
| | | Remainder 11 candidates | 51,333 | 24.91 | − |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 31,039 | 15.06 | − |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 206,102 | 64.31 | − |
| | BJP gain from SP | BJP gain from SP | Swing | | |