Balha Assembly constituency

Balha
Constituency No. 282 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bahraich
Total electors	3,62,718
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Saroj Sonkar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022
Preceded by	Akshaibar Lal

Balha is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Balha in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Balha is one of five assembly constituencies in the Bahraich Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1]

Current MLA is Saroj Sonkar of Bharatiya Janta Party who won in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Elected year	MLA	Party
Before 2008: Constituency does not exist
2012	Savitri Bai Fule		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014^	Banshidhar Baudh		Samajwadi Party
2017	Akshaibar Lal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019^	Saroj Sonkar
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Balha ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Saroj Sonkar	100,483	46.78	4.68
	SP	Akshaybar Nath Kanaujiya	83,910	39.06	24.56
	BSP	Ramchandra	15,578	7.25	21.17
	AAP	Laxmi Nagar Sonkar [3]	2,650	1.23
	Jan Adhikar Party	Jitendra Kumar	2,491	1.16
	VIP	Deepak	2,242	1.04
	INC	Kiran Bharti	2,125	0.99
	NOTA	None of the above	2,689	1.25	0.45
Majority			16,573	7.72	15.32
Turnout			214,812	59.22	1.32
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

UP By-election, 2019: Balha ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Saroj Sonkar	89,641	48.34	−3.12
	SP	Kiran Bharti	43,154	23.27	+8.77
	BSP	Ramesh Chandra	31,640	17.06	−11.36
	Jai Hind Samaj Party	Baijnath	5745	3.10
	Jan Adhikar Party	Ram Dayal	4762	2.57
	BMP	Dhanpat Prasad	2445	1.32
	CPI	Koyali	2244	1.21
	NOTA	None of the above	2102	1.13	−0.54
Majority			46,487	25.07	+2.03
Turnout			185430	51.87	−6.03
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Balha ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Akshaibar Lal	104,135	51.46
	BSP	Kiran Bharti	57,519	28.42
	SP	Banshi Dhar Baudh	29,349	14.5
	NOTA	None of the above	3,382	1.7
Majority			46,616	23.04
Turnout			202,367	57.9
	BJP hold		Swing

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
2. "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 March 2023.
3. Bhandari, Shashwat (16 January 2022). "AAP announces 150 candidates for UP elections 2022 | Check complete list". indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
4. Zee News (25 October 2019). "By-election results 2019: List of winners in 51 Assembly and Satara, Samastipur". Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
5. "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 26 March 2022.

External links

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

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