Pindra Assembly constituency

Pindra is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Varanasi district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency. Pindra Assembly constituency came into existence in 2008 as a result of the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008".^[1]^[2]^[3]

Wards / Areas

Pindra assembly constituency comprises the following Wards / areas.

#	Name	Reserved for
01	Pindra	None
02	Anei	None
03	Basani	None
04	Bahutara	None
05	Bhanpur	None
06	Baikunthpur	None
07	Murdi	None
08	Nahiya	None
09	Baragaon of Harahaua KC	None
10	Baragaon CT of Pindra Tehsil	None

Year	Member
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Ajay Rai	Indian National Congress
2017	Avadhesh Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Avadhesh Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pindra^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Avadhesh Singh	84,325	38.23	−6.11
	BSP	Babulal	48,766	22.11	−4.2
	INC	Ajay Rai	48,248	21.88	−1.7
	AD(K)	Rajesh Kumar Singh	33,020	14.97
	NOTA	None of the above	2,576	1.17	−0.26
Majority			35,559	16.12	−1.91
Turnout			220,547	59.05	−0.62
	BJPhold		Swing

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pindra^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Avadhesh Singh	90,614	44.34
	BSP	Babulal	53,765	26.31
	INC	Ajay Rai	48,189	23.58
	CPI	Shyamlal Singh	2,672	1.31
	NOTA	None of the above	2,889	1.43
Majority			36,849	18.03
Turnout			204,375	59.67
	BJPgain from INC		Swing	+15.03

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pindra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajay Rai	52,863	29.31	−
	BSP	Jai Prakash	43,645	24.2	−
	AD(K)	Sunil Patel	40,330	22.4	−
		Remainder eleven candidates	43,367	24.0	−
Majority			9,218	5.11	−
Turnout			180,343	56.4	−
	INCwin (new seat)

"Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.