# Azamgarh Assembly constituency

Azamgarh is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Azamgarh in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Azamgarh is one of the 5 assembly constituencies in the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 347 amongst 403 constituencies.

## Members of Legislative Assembly

| # | Term | Member of Legislative Assembly | Party | From | To | Days |
| 01 | 2nd Vidhan Sabha | Bisram | Praja Socialist Party | April 1957 | March 1962 | 1,800 |
| 02 | 3rd Vidhan Sabha | Bhima Prasad | Praja Socialist Party | March 1962 | March 1967 | 1,828 |
| 03 | 4th Vidhan Sabha | Bhima Prasad | Samyukta Socialist Party | March 1967 | April 1968 | 402 |
| 04 | 5th Vidhan Sabha | Bhima Prasad | Samyukta Socialist Party | February 1969 | March 1974 | 1,832 |
| 05 | 6th Vidhan Sabha | Bisram | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | March 1974 | April 1977 | 1,153 |
| 06 | 7th Vidhan Sabha | Bhima Prasad | Indian National Congress | June 1977 | February 1980 | 969 |
| 07 | 8th Vidhan Sabha | Ram Kunwar Singh | Indian National Congress (Indira) | June 1980 | March 1985 | 1,735 |
| 08 | 9th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Independent | March 1985 | November 1989 | 1,725 |
| 09 | 10th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Janata Dal | December 1989 | April 1991 | 488 |
| 10 | 11th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Janata Dal | June 1991 | December 1992 | 533 |
| 11 | 12th Vidhan Sabha | Raj Bali Yadav | Bahujan Samaj Party | December 1993 | October 1995 | 693 |
| 12 | 13th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Samajwadi Party | October 1996 | March 2002 | 1,967 |
| 13 | 14th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Samajwadi Party | February 2002 | May 2007 | 1,902 |
| 14 | 15th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Samajwadi Party | May 2007 | March 2012 | 1,736 |
| 15 | 16th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Samajwadi Party | March 2012 | March 2017 | 1,829 |
| 16 | 17th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Samajwadi Party | March 2017 | 2022 | 2914 |
| 17 | 18th Vidhan Sabha | Durga Prasad Yadav | Samajwadi Party | March 2022 | Incumbent | |

## Election results
### 2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Azamgarh :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | SP | Durga Prasad Yadav | 100,813 | 42.66 | +1.49 |
| | BJP | Akhilesh Mishra | 84,777 | 35.87 | +6.97 |
| | BSP | Sushil Kumar Singh | 39,281 | 16.62 | −10.58 |
| | AIMIM | Kamar Kamal | 5,532 | 2.34 | |
| | INC | Praveen Kumar Singh | 2,175 | 0.92 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 1,470 | 0.62 | −0.38 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 16,036 | 6.79 | −5.48 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 236,330 | 59.64 | +2.59 |
| | SP hold | SP hold | Swing | | |

### 2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Durga Prasad Yadav won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Akhilesh Mishra by a margin of 26,262 votes.
2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Azamgarh :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | SP | Durga Prasad Yadav | 88,087 | 41.17 |
| | BJP | Akhilesh Mishra | 61,825 | 28.9 |
| | BSP | Bhupendra | 58,185 | 27.2 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 2,134 | 1.0 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 26,262 | 12.27 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 213,948 | 57.05 |
| | SP hold | SP hold | Swing | |