Rasara Assembly constituency

Rasra
Constituency No. 358 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ballia
Total electors	3,56,377
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Umashankar Singh
Party	Bahujan Samaj Party
Elected year	2022

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

Rasra is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ghosi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 358 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently the seat belongs to Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Umashankar Singh who won in last Assembly election of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Ram Iqball Singh by a margin of 33,887 votes. ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member [2]	Party
1957	Ram Ratan		Indian National Congress
	Ganga Prasad Singh
1962	Raghunath		Communist Party of India
1967	Ram Ratan		Indian National Congress
1969
1974	Raghunath		Communist Party of India
1977	Mannu Ram		Janata Party
1980	Hardeo		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Ram Bachan
1991	Ghurhu		Janata Dal
1993	Ghoora Ram		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Anil Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Ghoora Ram		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007
2012	Umashankar Singh
2017
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Rasara ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Umashankar Singh	90,492	45.12	−2.65
	SBSP	Mahendra Chauhan	81,304	40.54
	BJP	Babban Rajbhar	24,235	12.08	−18.15
	NOTA	None of the above	1,339	0.67	−0.14
Majority			6,583	3.28	−14.26
Turnout			200,572	56.28	−1.26
	BSP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Rasara ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Uma Shanker Singh	92,272	47.77
	BJP	Ram Iqball Singh	58,385	30.23
	SP	Sanatan Pandey	37,006	19.16
	NOTA	None of the above	1,558	0.81
Majority			33,887	17.54
Turnout			193,151	57.54

References

1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
2. "Rasara Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India . 25 May 2022.

External links

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

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