Ajagara is an assembly constituency in the Varanasi district, in the East region of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Ajagara legislative assembly constituency went to polls on March 7, 2022.

The assembly seat is reserved for the Scheduled Caste category and it falls in the Chandauli Lok Sabha constituency.

Click here for Ajagara election result LIVE.

In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Ajagara was won by Kailash Nath Sonkar of the SBSP.

He defeated SP's Lalji Sonkar.

Before that, in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh vidhan sabha elections, the seat was held by BSP's Tribhuvan Ram.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Kailash Nath Sonkar garnered 83778 votes, securing 38.11 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 21349 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 9.71 percent.

In the 2017 Assembly polls, there were a total of 3,77,662 eligible electors, of which 1,82,170 were male,1,54,698 female and 14 electors of the third gender.

The Ajagara constituency has a literacy level of 75.6 percent.

Click here to track UP Assembly Election Results LIVE

Click here to track the latest on Assembly Election Results on our LIVE blog

First Published:Mar 10, 2022 12:59 AM IST