Tamkuhi Raj Assembly constituency

Tamkuhi Raj
Constituency No. 331 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Kushinagar
Lok Sabha constituency	Deoria Lok Sabha constituency
Total electors	3,78,534 (2017)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Asim Kumar
Party	BJP
Elected year	2022

Tamkuhi Raj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Tamkuhi Raj in the Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Tamkuhi Raj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Kushinagar Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 331 amongst 403 constituencies.

This seat belongs to Asim Kumar, who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Congress party candidate by a margin of 66000 votes. ^[1]

Member of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member [2]	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Ajay Kumar Lallu		Indian National Congress
2017
2022	Asim Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tamkuhi Raj ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Asim Kumar Rai	115,123	50.81	30.79
	SP	Uday Narayan	48,651	21.47
	INC	Ajay Kumar Lallu	33,496	14.78	13.65
	BSP	Sanjay	16,854	7.44	11.92
	CPI	Matiullah	2,263	1.0
	NOTA	None of the above	2,485	1.1	0.46
Majority			66,472	29.34	20.93
Turnout			226,581	56.6	0.27
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tamkuhi Raj ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajay Kumar Lallu	61,211	28.43
	BJP	Jagdish Mishra	43,097	20.02
	BSP	Bijay Rai	41,685	19.36
	NISHAD	Dr P K Rai	29,759	13.82
	Independent	Nandkishor Mishra	23,423	10.88
	Independent	Shrikant Mishra	3,210	1.49
	Independent	Vishnu Prabhakar	2,858	1.33
	NOTA	None of the above	3,305	1.56
Majority			18,114	8.41
Turnout			215,288	56.87
	INC hold		Swing	+1.85

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tamkuhi Raj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajay Kumar Lallu	53,121	27.03
	BJP	Nand Kishor Mishra	47,261	24.05
	SP	Dr P K Rai	39,759	20.23
	BSP	Manish Kumar Jaiswal	26,153	13.31
	PECP	Surendra Prasad Gupta	17,295	8.80
Majority			5,860	2.98
Turnout			1,96,516	56.42
	INC win (new seat)

References

1. "Tamkuhi Raj Election Result 2022 LIVE: Tamkuhi Raj MLA Election Result & Vote Share - Oneindia".
2. "Tamkuhi RajElection and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2017". Election Commission of India . 16 August 2018.

External links

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

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