Kunda Assembly constituency

Kunda
Constituency Details
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Pratapgarh
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Raghuraj Pratap Singh
Party	Jansatta Dal(L)
Elected year	2022

Kunda is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Kunda in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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.

Member of Legislative Assembly

• 1952: Three candidates elected from Kunda
• 1957: Two candidates, both independent, elected from Kunda
• 1962: Niyaz Hasan Khan (INC)
• 1967: Niyaz Hasan Khan (INC)
• 1969: Jai Ram (SSP)
• 1974: Niyaz Hasan Khan (NCO)
• 1977: Shashi Prabha (JNP)
• 1980: Niyaz Hasan Khan (INC - I)
• 1985: Niyaz Hasan Khan (INC)
• 1989: Niyaz Hasan Khan (INC)
• 1991: Shiv Narayan Mishra (BJP)

Year		Member	Political party
	1993	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Independent
	1996	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Independent
	2002	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Independent
	2007	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Independent
	2012	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Independent
	2017	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Independent
	2022	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Jansatta Dal Loktantrik

Election results

2022 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2022: Kunda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	[[Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)|Template:Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)/meta/shortname]]	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	99,612	50.58
	SP	Gulshan Yadav	69,297	35.19
	BJP	Sindhuja Mishra Senani	16,455	8.36
	BSP	Mohd Phaheem	3,345	1.7
	BMP	Dharmaraj	1,985	1.01
Majority			30,315	15.39
Turnout			1,96,940
	[[Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)|Template:Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)/meta/shortname]] hold		Swing

2017 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Kunda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	1,35,900	69.32
	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	1.30
	BMP	Jiya Lal	2,109	1.05
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,992	1.99
Majority			1,03,647	52.93
Turnout			2,01,080	58.64
	Independent hold		Swing

2012 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Kunda

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 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007: Kunda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	73,732
	BSP	Shiv Prakash Mishra	20,604
	AD	Thakur Prakash Singh	9,241
	INC	Kunwar Amresh Singh	5928
Majority			53,128
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing

2002 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2002: Kunda

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

External links

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