# Allahabad West Assembly constituency

Allahabad West is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the Prayagraj city of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Allahabad West is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 261 amongst 403 constituencies.
Currently this seat is represented by Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Siddharth Nath Singh who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Richa Singh by a margin of 29,873 votes.

## Members of Legislative Assembly

| Year | Member | Party |
| 1967 | Chaudhary Naunihal Singh | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | Habib Ahmad | Independent |
| 1974 | Tirath Ram Kohli | Bharatiya Jan Sangh |
| 1977 | Habib Ahmad | Janata Party |
| 1979^ | Chaudhary Naunihal Singh | Indian National Congress (I) |
| 1980 | Chaudhary Naunihal Singh | Indian National Congress (I) |
| 1985 | Gopal Das Yadav | Lokdal |
| 1989 | Atiq Ahmed | Independent |
| 1991 | Atiq Ahmed | Independent |
| 1993 | Atiq Ahmed | Independent |
| 1996 | Atiq Ahmed | Samajwadi Party |
| 2002 | Atiq Ahmed | Apna Dal |
| 2004^ | Raju Pal | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2005^ | Khalid Azim | Samajwadi Party |
| 2007 | Pooja Pal | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2012 | Pooja Pal | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2017 | Sidharth Nath Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2022 | Sidharth Nath Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party |
^ by poll

## Election results
### 2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Allahabad West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Siddharth Nath Singh | 118,759 | 53.29 | +10.25 |
| | SP | Richa Singh | 88,826 | 39.86 | +9.57 |
| | BSP | Gulam Qadir | 7,626 | 3.42 | −16.96 |
| | INC | Tasleem Uddin | 2,295 | 1.03 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 1,518 | 0.68 | −0.15 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 29,933 | 13.43 | +0.68 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 222,861 | 48.49 | +1.05 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | | |

### 2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Allahabad West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Sidharth Nath Singh | 85,518 | 43.04 | +37.55 |
| | SP | Richa Singh | 60,182 | 30.29 | 19.87 |
| | BSP | Pooja Pal | 40,499 | 20.38 | 19.73 |
| | Independent | Hasan Akhlaq Alias Rizwan Niwan | 4,018 | 2.02 | |
| | NISHAD | Chandradev Singh Alias Daya Singh Bismark | 2,974 | 1.5 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 1,659 | 0.83 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 25,336 | 12.75 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 198,692 | 47.44 | |
| | BJP gain from BSP | BJP gain from BSP | Swing | +28.64 | |

### 2012

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Allahabad West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BSP | Pooja Pal | 71,114 | 40.11 |
| | AD | Atiq Ahmad | 62,229 | 35.10 |
| | SP | Jyoti Yadav | 18,867 | 10.64 |
| | BJP | Ramji Kesarwani | 9,740 | 5.49 |
| | INC | Ravi Prakash | 4,933 | 2.78 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 8,885 | 5.01 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,77,311 | 51.74 |
| | BSP hold | BSP hold | Swing | |

### 2007

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BSP | Pooja Pal | 56,198 | 47.08 |
| | SP | Khalid Azim | 45,876 | 38.43 |
| | BJP | Keshav Prasad Maurya | 11,111 | 9.31 |
| | INC | Syed Mohammad Shahab | 2,110 | 1.76 |
| | Independent | Sachin Sonkar | 918 | 0.77 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 10,322 | 8.65 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,19,355 | 34.05 |
| | BSP gain from SP | BSP gain from SP | Swing | |

### 2005 bypoll

By Election, 2005 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | SP | Khalid Azim | 90,836 | 52.42 |
| | BSP | Pooja Pal | 77,453 | 44.69 |
| | BJP | Lakshmi Shankar Ojha | 1,410 | 0.82 |
| | Independent | Vasudev | 1,140 | 0.66 |
| | INC | Sanjay Krishna Srivastava | 660 | 0.38 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 13,383 | 7.73 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,73,282 | 45.30 |
| | SP gain from BSP | SP gain from BSP | Swing | |

### 2004 bypoll

By Election, 2004 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BSP | Raju Pal | 70,533 | 47.16 |
| | SP | Khalid Azim | 65,715 | 43.94 |
| | BJP | Keshav Prasad | 6,116 | 4.09 |
| | INC | Anshuman Singh | 2,313 | 1.55 |
| | AD | Syed Asaf | 1,165 | 0.78 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 4,818 | 3.22 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,49,555 | 40.08 |
| | BSP gain from AD | BSP gain from AD | Swing | |