Obra, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency
Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India
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Obra is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Obra in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
| Obra | |
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| Constituency No. 402 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Sonbhadra |
| Total electors | 3,27,556 |
| Reservation | ST |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Elected year | 2017 |
Obra is one of five assembly constituencies in the Robertsganj Lok Sabha constituency and is reserved for candidates of the Scheduled Tribes.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist | |||
| 2012 | Sunil Kumar Singh Yadav | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2017 | Sanjiv Kumar Gond | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2022 | |||
Election results
2022
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sanjeev Kumar Gond | 78,364 | 48.04 | +0.11 | |
| SP | Arvind Kumar Alias Sunil Singh Gond | 51,922 | 31.83 | +11.08 | |
| BSP | Subhash Kharwar | 20,131 | 12.34 | −5.54 | |
| INC | Ramraj | 4,519 | 2.77 | ||
| VIP | Umashankar | 2,184 | 1.34 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,077 | 1.89 | −0.83 | |
| Majority | 26,442 | 16.21 | −10.97 | ||
| Turnout | 163,139 | 49.8 | −3.1 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2017
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sanjiv Kumar won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Ravi Gond by a margin of 44,269 votes.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sanjiv Kumar | 78,058 | 47.93 | ||
| SP | Ravi Gond | 33,789 | 20.75 | ||
| BSP | Virendra Pratap Singh | 29,113 | 17.88 | ||
| Independent | Subhash Kharvar | 6,198 | 3.81 | ||
| CPI | Bahadur Ram Panika | 3,272 | 2.01 | ||
| NISHAD | Jagdeesh Baiga | 1,825 | 1.12 | ||
| Independent | Ram Surat | 1,709 | 1.05 | ||
| All India Peoples' Front (Radical) | Kripa Shankar | 1,631 | 1.0 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 4,305 | 2.72 | ||
| Majority | 44,269 | 27.18 | |||
| Turnout | 162,843 | 52.9 | |||