Aurai, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

Aurai is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Aurai in the Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Bhadohi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is reserved for candidates of the Scheduled Castes.^[1]

Aurai
Constituency No. 394 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bhadohi
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dinanath Bhaskar
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1967	Nihala Singh		Indian National Congress
1969
1974	Girija Shankar Pathak		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977	Bechuram		Janata Party
1980	Yogesh Chandra		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Nihala Singh		Janata Party
1989			Janata Dal
1991	Yogesh Chandra
1993	Rangnath Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
2002	Uday Bhan Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2005^	Rangnath Mishra
2007
2012	Madhubala Pasi		Samajwadi Party
2017	Dinanath Bhaskar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dinanath Bhaskar	93,691	41.69	+1.25
	SP	Anjani	92,044	40.95	+10.11
	BSP	Kamala Shankar	28,413	12.64	−11.17
	INC	Sanjoo Devi	2,694	1.2
	VIP	Babita	2,499	1.11
	AIMIM	Tedhai	2,190	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	2,205	0.98	−0.22
Majority			1,647	0.74	−8.86
Turnout			224,745	59.5	+0.47
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dinanath Bhaskar won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Madhubala Pasi by a margin of 19,979 votes.^[4][5]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Aurai^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dinanath Bhaskar	83,325	40.44
	SP	Madhubala Pasi	63,546	30.84
	BSP	Baijnath Gautam	49,059	23.81
	NISHAD	Suresh Kumar Pasi	3,508	1.7
	NOTA	None of the above	2,480	1.2
Majority			19,779	9.6
Turnout			206,026	59.03
	BJP gain from SP		Swing