Ayodhya is assembly constituency number 275 in Uttar Pradesh, in Faizabad district, and one of the segments of the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat. In the 2022 election Ved Prakash Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party won with 49.0% of the vote, 19,990 votes ahead of Tej Narayan Pandey (pawan Pandey) (SP).
- 01Ved Prakash GuptaBJP1,13,41449.04%
- 02Tej Narayan Pandey (pawan Pandey)SP93,42440.40%
- 03Ravi PrakashBSP17,7067.66%
- 04ReetaINC2,0110.87%
- 05Suryakant PandeyCPI9950.43%
- 5 other candidates · 2,468 votesNOTA · 1,240 (0.54%)
Margin 19,990 votes · 8.64% of valid votes
All 10 candidates, ranked by votes. Vote share is of the 2,31,258 valid votes, NOTA included.
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ved Prakash GuptaMale · 74 yrs | BJP | 1,13,414 | 49.04% |
| 2 | Tej Narayan Pandey (pawan Pandey)Male · 41 yrs | SP | 93,424 | 40.40% |
| 3 | Ravi PrakashMale · 33 yrs | BSP | 17,706 | 7.66% |
| 4 | ReetaFemale · 49 yrs | INC | 2,011 | 0.87% |
| — | NOTA | NOTA | 1,240 | 0.54% |
| 5 | Suryakant PandeyMale · 60 yrs | CPI | 995 | 0.43% |
| 6 | Rajesh KumarMale · 39 yrs | JAPL | 801 | 0.35% |
| 7 | Sanjay SharmaMale · 38 yrs | MADP | 673 | 0.29% |
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| 8 | Subham SrivastavMale · 28 yrs | AAP | 490 | 0.21% |
| 9 | Ramesh Kumar ChaubeyMale · 37 yrs | BSCP | 268 | 0.12% |
| 10 | Brajendra Dutt TripathiMale · 47 yrs | AACP | 236 | 0.10% |
BJP held the seat: it also won in 2017.
General elections since the 2008 delimitation. Results from before the current boundaries are not compared.
Ayodhya result 2017
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ved Prakash Gupta | BJP | 1,07,014 | 49.20% |
| 2 | Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan Pandey | SP | 56,574 | 26.01% |
| 3 | Mo. Bazmi Siddeke | BSP | 39,554 | 18.19% |
| 4 | Banshi Lal Yadav | BMUP | 5,661 | 2.60% |
| 5 | Sushil Jaiswal | ADHIKAR | 1,635 | 0.75% |
| — | NOTA | NOTA | 1,544 | 0.71% |
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| 6 | Suryakant Pandey | CPI | 1,353 | 0.62% |
| 7 | Dr. Ripunjay Singh | AACP | 737 | 0.34% |
| 8 | Dharmendra Kumar Uppadhyay | RLD | 644 | 0.30% |
| 9 | Devki Nandan Maurya | JANADIP | 585 | 0.27% |
| 10 | Mahesh Kumar Nishad | JPS | 532 | 0.24% |
| 11 | Radhe Shyam Shrivastava | Independent | 492 | 0.23% |
| 12 | Pradeep Kumar Kori | RPI(A) | 406 | 0.19% |
| 13 | Deelip Chaudhari | MADP | 398 | 0.18% |
| 14 | Akhilesh Kumar Alias Akhilesh Chaturvedi | CPI(ML)(L) | 359 | 0.17% |
Ayodhya result 2012
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tej Narayan Pandey Alias Pawan Pandey | SP | 55,262 | 28.74% |
| 2 | Lallu Singh | BJP | 49,857 | 25.93% |
| 3 | Ved Prakash Gupta | BSP | 33,481 | 17.41% |
| 4 | Gulshan Alias Bindoo | Independent | 22,023 | 11.45% |
| 5 | Rajendra Pratap Singh | INC | 9,710 | 5.05% |
| 6 | Rajesh Mishra Alias 'rajan | PECP | 6,603 | 3.43% |
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| 7 | Arun Kumar | PAP | 2,477 | 1.29% |
| 8 | Ashok Kumar | CPI | 1,438 | 0.75% |
| 9 | Sunil Nishad | PMSP | 972 | 0.51% |
| 10 | Rama Kant | Independent | 948 | 0.49% |
| 11 | Archna | MwSP | 924 | 0.48% |
| 12 | Ashok Srivastava | SJP(R) | 918 | 0.48% |
| 13 | Girish Kumar Dubey | TMC | 890 | 0.46% |
| 14 | Ram Lochan | Independent | 824 | 0.43% |
| 15 | Jagdamba Prasad Kasaudhan | MBCOI | 691 | 0.36% |
| 16 | Chaudhary Arun Kumar Kori | LJP | 680 | 0.35% |
| 17 | Raghvendra Kumar | Independent | 588 | 0.31% |
| 18 | Gyan Chandra Kesharwani | JaKP | 587 | 0.31% |
| 19 | Ajay Kumar Sinha | NRSN | 493 | 0.26% |
| 20 | Babloo Kori | HD | 485 | 0.25% |
| 21 | Jagannath Vishwakarma | MADP | 474 | 0.25% |
| 22 | Akhilesh Kumar | Independent | 457 | 0.24% |
| 23 | Shiv Prasad Patel | JD(U) | 438 | 0.23% |
| 24 | Bhupendra Kumar Mishra | Independent | 418 | 0.22% |
| 25 | Amar Nath Jaiswal | AlHP | 345 | 0.18% |
| 26 | Sunil Singh 'vidhyarthi' | RLM | 296 | 0.15% |
Ayodhya outlined in orange among the other Uttar Pradesh seats, coloured by the party that won each in 2022. Click any seat to open its page.
Other seats in Faizabad district
Boundaries are approximate (DataMeet, from ECI polling-station maps) and are for orientation only.
Ayodhya is one of the assembly segments of Faizabad. These are the EVM votes counted in this segment for the leading Faizabad candidates.
- Lallu SinghBJP1,04,671 47.9%
- Awadhesh PrasadSP1,00,004 45.7%
- Sachidanand PandeyBSP10,814 4.9%
- Arvind SenCPI1,101 0.5%
- Sunil Kumar BhattIndependent368 0.2%
In the assembly election BJP won this seat. In the Lok Sabha vote, BJP led here by 4,667 EVM votes.
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Answers use the official Election Commission of India results for Ayodhya.
Who won the Ayodhya assembly seat in 2022?
Ved Prakash Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won Ayodhya in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election with 1,13,414 votes, which was 49.04% of the valid votes polled.
What was the victory margin in Ayodhya?
The margin was 19,990 votes (8.64% of valid votes). The runner-up was Tej Narayan Pandey (pawan Pandey) of the Samajwadi Party with 93,424 votes.
What was the voter turnout in Ayodhya in 2022?
Turnout was 60.95%: 2,32,873 of 3,82,056 registered electors voted, across 414 polling stations. That is 1.1 points lower than in 2017.
Which Lok Sabha constituency is Ayodhya part of?
Ayodhya is an assembly segment of the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Lallu Singh got the most EVM votes in this segment.
Is Ayodhya a reserved constituency?
No. Ayodhya is a general (unreserved) seat, so any eligible candidate can contest.
When is the next assembly election in Ayodhya?
The Uttar Pradesh assembly elected in 2022 completes its five-year term in 2027, so the next general election is due by then unless the assembly is dissolved early. The Election Commission of India announces the exact schedule.
Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections of 2022 and 2017 and 2012 (2022 report) — detailed results and constituency data summary. Lok Sabha figures: ECI 2024 report 34, assembly segment details. Vote share is of valid votes including NOTA. Party names as listed by ECI. Candidate names are shown as filed; spelling follows ECI.
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