# Sarojini Nagar Assembly constituency

Sarojini Nagar is one of the 403 assembly constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the area of Sarojini Nagar in the Lucknow district. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency.
Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 170 amongst 403 constituencies.
In 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rajeshwar Singh won the elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Abhishek Mishra by the margin of 56,186 votes. He is an ex-ED Joint Director IPS officer who has taken VRS from the service to contest the elections.

## Members of Legislative Assembly

| Year | Member | Party |
| 1967 | Vijay Kumar Tripathi | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | Chandra Bhanu Gupta | Indian National Congress |
| 1974 | Vijay Kumar Tripathi | Indian National Congress |
| 1977 | Chheda Singh Chauhan | Janata Party |
| 1980 | Vijay Kumar Tripathi | Indian National Congress |
| 1985 | Sharda Pratap Shukla | Independent |
| 1989 | Sharda Pratap Shukla | Janata Dal |
| 1991 | Vijay Kumar Tripathi | Indian National Congress |
| 1993 | Shyam Kishore Yadav | Samajwadi Party |
| 1996 | Shyam Kishore Yadav | Samajwadi Party |
| 2002 | Mohammad Irshad Khan | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2007 | Mohammad Irshad Khan | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2012 | Sharda Pratap Shukla | Samajwadi Party |
| 2017 | Swati Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2022 | Rajeshwar Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party |

## Election results
### 2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Rajeshwar Singh | 1,60,626 | 49.07 | +11.76 |
| | SP | Abhishek Mishra | 1,04,440 | 31.9 | +6.35 |
| | BSP | Mohd. Jaleesh Khan | 33,356 | 10.19 | −14.49 |
| | INC | Rudra Daman Singh | 19,711 | 6.02 | − |
| | AAP | Rohit Srivastav | 2,427 | 0.74 | − |
| | NOTA | NOTA | 1,822 | 0.56 | −0.10 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 56,186 | 17.17 | +5.41 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 3,27,373 | | |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | {{{swing}}} | |

### 2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BJP | Swati Singh | 1,08,506 | 37.31 |
| | SP | Anurag Yadav | 74,327 | 25.55 |
| | BSP | Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari) | 71,791 | 24.68 |
| | IND. | Rudra Daman Singh | 20,607 | 7.08 |
| | RLD | Sharda Pratap Shukla | 4,489 | 1.54 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 1,926 | 0.66 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 34,179 | 11.76 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,90,894 | 58.35 |
| | BJP gain from SP | BJP gain from SP | Swing | |

### 2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | SP | Sharda Pratap Shukla | 67,601 | 28.88 |
| | BSP | Shiv Shankar Singh (Shankari) | 59,236 | 25.30 |
| | RSBP | Rudra Daman Singh | 41,386 | 17.68 |
| | BJP | Virendra Kumar Tiwari | 29,510 | 12.61 |
| | INC | Gaurav Choudhry | 22,003 | 9.40 |
| | AD | Sher Bahadur Singh (Shera) | 2,581 | 1.10 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 8,365 | 3.58 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,34,090 | 59.17 |
| | SP gain from Bahujan Samaj party (mayawati) | SP gain from Bahujan Samaj party (mayawati) | Swing | |

### 2007

2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Sarojini Nagar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BSP | Mohammad Irshad Khan | 65,736 | 36.99 |
| | SP | Shyam Kishore Yadav | 60,312 | 33.93 |
| | BJP | Virendra Kumar Tiwari | 21,364 | 12.02 |
| | INC | Ajay Kumar Tripathi | 10,487 | 5.90 |
| | JM | Lalloo Yadav | 3,434 | 1.93 |
| | RSBP | Bachan Singh Yadav | 1,952 | 1.10 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 5,424 | 3.06 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,77,723 | 43.56 |
| | BSP hold | BSP hold | Swing | |