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{{Short description|Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2019}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Rasra
| map_image = 358-Rasara.svg
| mla = [[Uma Shankar Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician)|Umashankar Singh]]
| party = {{Party index link|Bahujan Samaj Party}}
| alliance = {{Party index link|Independent|None}}
| latest_election_year = 2022
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| district = [[Ballia district|Ballia]]
| reservation = None
| type = SLA
| electors = 3,56,377
| constituency_no = 358
}}

'''Rasra''' is a constituency of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] covering the city of Rasra in the [[Ballia district]] of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Rasra is one of five assembly constituencies in the [[Ghosi Lok Sabha constituency]]. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 358 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently the seat belongs to [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] candidate '''Umashankar Singh''' who won in last Assembly election of the [[ 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections]] defeating [[Bharatiya Janta Party]] candidate '''Ram Iqball Singh''' by a margin of 33,887 votes.<ref name="election2017">{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/rasra.html|title=Assembly result 2017|website=Elections.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Member<ref name="election2018">{{Cite web |title=Rasara Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs |url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/Rasara.html |access-date= |website=Elections in India}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[1957 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|Ram Ratan
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|Ganga Prasad Singh
|-
|[[1962 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Raghunath
|style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|-
|[[1967 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
| rowspan="2" |Ram Ratan
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1969 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|-
|[[1974 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1974]]
|Raghunath
|style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|-
|[[1977 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|Mannu Ram
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|[[Janata Party]]
|-
|[[1980 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
| rowspan="2" |Hardeo
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|-
|[[1985 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1989 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1989]]
|Ram Bachan
|-
|[[1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|Ghurhu
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Dal}}" |
|[[Janata Dal]]
|-
|[[1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]]
|Ghoora Ram
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}" |
|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|-
|[[1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|Anil Kumar
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|[[2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2002]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Ghoora Ram]]
| rowspan="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}" |
| rowspan="5" |[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|-
|[[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2007]]
|-
|[[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Uma Shankar Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician)|Umashankar Singh]]
|-
|[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
|-
|[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
|}

==Election results==

=== 2022 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Rasara<ref name="election2022">{{Cite web |date=2022-05-25 |title=Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/14185-uttar-pradesh-general-legislative-election-2022/|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Umashankar Singh
|votes = {{formatnum:90492}}
|percentage = 45.12
|change = -2.65
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party|candidate=Mahendra Chauhan|votes={{formatnum:81304}}|percentage=40.54|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Babban Rajbhar|votes={{formatnum:24235}}|percentage=12.08|change=-18.15}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=[[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]|votes={{formatnum:1339}}|percentage=0.67|change=-0.14}}
{{Election box majority|votes={{formatnum:6583}}|percentage=3.28|change=-14.26}}
{{Election box turnout|votes={{formatnum:200572}}|percentage=56.28|change=-1.26}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|
|winner = Bahujan Samaj Party
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2017 ===
{{Election box begin
|title = [[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election]]: Rasara<ref name="election2017"/>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Uma Shanker Singh
|votes = {{formatnum:92272}}
|percentage = 47.77
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Ram Iqball Singh
|votes = {{formatnum:58385}}
|percentage = 30.23
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = Sanatan Pandey
|votes = {{formatnum:37006}}
|percentage = 19.16
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:1558}}
|percentage = 0.81
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:33887}}
|percentage = 17.54
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:193151}}
|percentage = 57.54
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |title=Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/category/92-uttar-pradesh/ |website=eci.gov.in |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=15 March 2022}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh}}
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Ballia district]]
[[Category:Politics of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1956]]
[[Category:1956 establishments in Uttar Pradesh]]

Rasara Assembly constituency - Revision history

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