| Rasra | |
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| Constituency No. 358 for theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| 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 | |
| Party | BSP |
| Alliance | None |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Rasra is a constituency of theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Rasra in theBallia district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Rasra is one of five assembly constituencies in theGhosi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 358 amongst 403 constituencies.
Currently the seat belongs toBahujan Samaj Party candidateUmashankar Singh who won in last Assembly election of the2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeatingBharatiya Janta Party candidateRam Iqball Singh by a margin of 33,887 votes.[1]
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| BSPhold | Swing | ||||
| 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 | |||