Rohaniya (Assembly constituency)

Rohaniya
Constituency
District	Varanasi
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA	Surendra Narayan Singh
Reservation	None

Rohaniya is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Rohaniya in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a Patel-Bhumihar dominant seat. The constituency number is 387. Rohaniya is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 387 amongst 403 constituencies.

As of now, this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Surendra Narayan Singh belonging to the Bhumihar community, who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Mahendra Singh Patel by a margin of 57,553 votes.

Member of Legislative Assembly

Year		Member	Political Party
	2012	Anupriya Singh Patel	Apna Dal
	2014	Mahendra Singh Patel	Samajwadi Party
	2017	Surendra Narayan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party

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Election results

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Rohaniya

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Surendra Narayan Singh	1,19,885	51.28
	SP	Mahendra Singh Patel	62,332	26.66
	BSP	Pramod Kumar Singh	30,531	13.06
	IND.	Krishna Patel	9,549	4.08
	IND.	Parvati Devi	2,926	1.25
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,190	0.94
Majority			57,553	24.62
Turnout			2,33,784	61.64
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

Bye Election, 2014: Rohaniya

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Mahendra Singh Patel	76,121	40.83
	AD	Krishna Patel	61,672	33.08
	Independent	Ramakant Singh	30,078	16.13
	INC	Dr. Bhawana Patel	3,207	1.72
	[[Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party|Template:Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party/meta/shortname]]	Shiv Lal Yadav	2,599	1.39
	NOTA	None of the Above	941	0.50
Majority			14,449	7.75
Turnout			1,86,402	51.12
	SP gain from AD		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Elections, 2012: Rohaniya

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AD	Anupriya Patel	57,812	30.22
	BSP	Ramakant Singh	40,229	21.03
	SP	Manoj Rai Dhoopchandi	26,091	13.64
	BJP	Sanjay Rai	18,504	9.67
	INC	Hira Lal Maurya	18,213	9.52
	[[Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party|Template:Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party/meta/shortname]]	Abhay Patel	16,138	8.44
Majority			17,583	9.19
Turnout			1,91,295	60.35
	AD win (new seat)