Raniganj, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Raniganj (disambiguation).

Raniganj is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Raniganj in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]

Raniganj
Constituency No. 250 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Pratapgarh
Total electors	3,36,072
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dr. R.K.Verma
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Raniganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 250 amongst 403 constituencies. Dr RK Verma from Samajwadi Party is current MLA.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Shivakant Ojha		Samajwadi Party
2017	Dheeraj Ojha		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Rakesh Kumar Verma		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Dr. R K Verma	75,583	40.05
	BJP	Abhay Kumar (Dheeraj Ojha)	72,934	38.65
	BSP	Ajay Yadav	21,411	11.35
	AIMIM	Anil Kumar	11,748	6.23
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,139	0.60
	INC	Abdul Wahid	1,085	0.57
		Rest of the candidates	~4,500	2.30
Majority			2,649
Turnout
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party's Dhiraj Ojha won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Shakeel Ahmad Khan by a margin of 9,009 votes.^[4]

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
2. "Raniganj Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
3. "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
4. "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.

External links

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

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