Kunda Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Kunda is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kunda in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1]
| Kunda | |
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| Constituency No. 29 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Pratapgarh |
| Total electors | 3,57,938 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | JD(L) |
| Alliance | None |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Kunda (कुंडा / कुंडाहरनामगंज) is one of five assembly constituencies in the Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 246 amongst 403 constituencies.
Since 1993 this seat belongs to Jansatta Dal Loktantrik candidate Raghuraj Pratap Singh (Raja Bhaiya), who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Gulshan Yadav by a margin of around 30,000 votes.
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Ram Naresh Shukla | Indian National Congress | |
| Ram Swaroop | |||
| 1957 | Nand Ram | Independent | |
| Gaya Prasad | |||
| 1962 | Niyaz Hasan Khan | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | |||
| 1969 | Jai Ram | Samyukta Socialist Party | |
| 1974 | Niyaz Hasan Khan | Indian National Congress (O) | |
| 1977 | Shashi Prabha | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Niyaz Hasan Khan | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1989 | |||
| 1991 | Shivnarayan Mishra | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1993 | Raghuraj Pratap Singh | Independent | |
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2007 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| 2017 | |||
| 2022 | Jansatta Dal (L) | ||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jansatta Dal (L) | Raghuraj Pratap Singh | 99,612 | 50.58 | ||
| SP | Gulshan Yadav | 69,297 | 35.19 | ||
| BJP | Sindhuja Mishra Senani | 16,455 | 8.36 | −8.03 | |
| BSP | Mohd Phaheem | 3,345 | 1.7 | −6.89 | |
| BMP | Dharmaraj | 1,985 | 1.01 | −0.04 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,161 | 1.1 | −0.93 | |
| Majority | 30,315 | 15.39 | −36.17 | ||
| Turnout | 196,940 | 55.02 | −3.61 | ||
| Jansatta Dal (L) gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
2017
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Raghuraj Pratap Singh | 136,597 | 67.95 | ||
| BJP | Janki Sharan | 32,950 | 16.39 | ||
| BSP | Parvez Akhtar | 17,261 | 8.59 | ||
| Independent | Bhagwandeen | 5,514 | 2.74 | ||
| Independent | Ram Kripal | 2,615 | 1.3 | ||
| BMP | Jiya Lal | 2,109 | 1.05 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,992 | 2.03 | ||
| Majority | 103,647 | 51.56 | |||
| Turnout | 201,038 | 58.63 | |||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
2012
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Raghuraj Pratap Singh | 1,11,392 | 67.96 | ||
| BSP | Shiv Prakash Mishra | 23,137 | 14.12 | ||
| INC | Ram Shankar | 14,341 | 8.75 | ||
| BJP | Tribhuvan | 3,515 | 2.14 | ||
| Independent | Panna Lal | 3,216 | 1.96 | ||
| Majority | 88,255 | 53.84 | |||
| Turnout | 1,63,912 | 51.96 | |||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
2007
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Raghuraj Pratap Singh | 73,732 | |||
| BSP | Shiv Prakash Mishra | 20,604 | |||
| AD(K) | Thakur Prakash Singh | 9,241 | |||
| INC | Kunwar Amresh Singh | 5928 | |||
| Majority | 53,128 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
2002
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Raghuraj Pratap Singh | 88,446 | 82.13 | ||
| SP | Mohammad Sami | 6,768 | 6.28 | ||
| BSP | Yogendra Nath Mishra Maula | 3,583 | 3.33 | ||
| Independent | Harivansh Kumar | 2,213 | 2.06 | ||
| INC | Shiv Baran Singh | 1,823 | 1.69 | ||
| Majority | 81,678 | 75.85 | |||
| Turnout | 1,07,687 | 44.92 | |||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||