# Tanda Assembly constituency

Tanda is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the town of Tanda in the Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 278 amongst 403 constituencies.
As of March 2022, this seat belongs to Samajwadi Party candidate Ram Murti Verma who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating BJP candidate Kapil Deo Verma by a margin of 31,491 votes.

## Members of Legislative Assembly

| Year | Member | Party |
| 1952 | Ram Sumer | Indian National Congress |
| 1952 | Mohammad Nasir | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Jai Ram Varma | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Sukh Ram | Indian National Congress |
| 1962 | Jai Ram Varma | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | Ram Chandra Azad | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | Ram Chandra Azad | Bharatiya Kranti Dal |
| 1970^ | Jai Ram Varma | Bharatiya Kranti Dal |
| 1974 | Nisar Ahmad Ansari | Indian National Congress |
| 1977 | Abdul Hafeez | Janata Party |
| 1980 | Gopi Nath Verma | Janata Party (Secular) |
| 1985 | Jai Ram Varma | Indian National Congress |
| 1988^ | Gopi Nath Verma | Lokdal |
| 1989 | Gopi Nath Verma | Janata Dal |
| 1991 | Lalji Verma | Janata Dal |
| 1993 | Masood Ahmad | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 1996 | Lalji Verma | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2002 | Lalji Verma | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2007 | Lalji Verma | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2012 | Azimulhaq Pahalwan | Samajwadi Party |
| 2017 | Sanju Devi | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2022 | Ram Murti Verma | Samajwadi Party |

## Election results
### 2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tanda :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | AAP | Rakesh Verma | |
| | INC | Merajuddin Kichhauchhvi | |
| | SP | | |
| | | TBD | |
| | | TBD | |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| | gain from | gain from | Swing |

### Summary

| Year | Constituency Name | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes | Margin |
| 2022 | Tanda | Ram Murti Verma | SP | 94442 | Kapil Deo Verma | BJP | 62951 | 31491 |
| 2017 | Tanda | Sanju Devi | BJP | 74768 | Azimulhaque Paglwan | SP | 73043 | 1725 |
| 2012 | Tanda | Azimulhaque Pahlwan | SP | 83249 | Ajay Kumar Alias Vishal Verma | BSP | 55728 | 27521 |
| 2007 | Tanda | Lal Ji Verma | BSP | 65365 | Azimul Huqe Pahalwan | SP | 62910 | 2455 |
| 2002 | Tanda | Laljee Verma | BSP | 67376 | Azeemul Haq Pahalwan | SP | 56887 | 10489 |
| 1996 | Tanda | Lalji Verma | BSP | 55960 | Jamirul Hasan Ansari | SP | 54302 | 1658 |
| 1993 | Tanda | Dr. Masood Ahmad | BSP | 61374 | Keshav Ram Verma | BJP | 40202 | 21172 |
| 1991 | Tanda | Lal Ji Verma | JD | 40614 | Sheo Pujan Verma | BJP | 26983 | 13631 |
| 1989 | Tanda | Gopi Nath Verma | JD | 42308 | Ram Abhilakh | INC | 29782 | 12526 |
| 1988 | Tanda | G.Nath | LKD | 40783 | M.A.Kidwai | INC | 34988 | 5795 |
| 1985 | Tanda | Jai Ram Verma | INC | 26271 | Gopi Nath Verma | LKD | 21156 | 5115 |
| 1980 | Tanda | Gopi Nath Verma | JNP(SC) | 25734 | Nisar Ahmad Ansari | INC(I) | 25682 | 52 |
| 1977 | Tanda | Abdul Hafeez | JNP | 29000 | Jai Ram Verma | INC | 25350 | 3650 |
| 1974 | Tanda | Nisar Ahmad Ansari | INC | 34153 | Ram Chandra Azad | BKD | 25941 | 8212 |
| 1970 | Tanda | J.R.Verma | BKD | 33114 | R.N.Tripathi | IND | 17532 | 15582 |
| 1969 | Tanda | Ram Chandra Azad | BKD | 22995 | Mukhtar Ammad | INC | 21312 | 1683 |
| 1967 | Tanda | R. C. Azad | INC | 27121 | S. Singh | BJS | 14809 | 12312 |
| 1962 | Tanda | Jai Ram Varma | INC | 27779 | Satya Narain | IND | 17798 | 9981 |
| 1957 | Tanda | Sukh Ram | INC | 30296 | Badal Ram | IND | 21029 | 9267 |
| 1957 | Tanda | Jai Ram Varma | INC | 39685 | Jeet Bahadur Singh | PSP | 21077 | 18608 |