Gainsari Assembly constituency

Gainsari is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gainsari in the Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1][2]

Gainsari
Constituency No. 292 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Balrampur
Total electors	3,65,598
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rakesh Kumar Yadav
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2024

Gainsari is one of five assembly constituencies in the Shravasti Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 292 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Samajwadi Party candidate Shiv Pratap Yadav who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bhartiya Janata Party candidate Shailesh Kumar Singh by a margin of 5,837 votes.^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1967	S. B. Singh		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969	Vijay Pal Singh
1974
1977	Vindu Lal		Janata Party
1980	Aqbal Husain		Indian National Congress
1985	Arun Pratap Singh		Indian National Congress
1989	Aqbal Husain
1991	Vindu Lal		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Shiv Pratap Yadav		Samajwadi Party
1996	Vindu Lal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Shiv Pratap Yadav		Samajwadi Party
2007	Alauddin Khan		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Shiv Pratap Yadav		Samajwadi Party
2017	Shailesh Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Shiv Pratap Yadav		Samajwadi Party
2024^	Rakesh Kumar Yadav

^By Election

Election results

2024 bypoll

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election, 2024: Gainsari^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rakesh Kumar Yadav	87,120	46.76	7.08
	BJP	Shailesh Kumar Singh	77,683	41.7	5.09
	BSP	Mohammad Haris Khan	16,983	9.12	7.69
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,364	0.73	0.19
Majority			9,437	5.06	1.99
Turnout			1,86,304
	SP hold		Swing

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gainsari^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Shiv Pratap Yadav	75,345	39.68	+16.03
	BJP	Shailesh Kumar Singh	69,508	36.61	+8.2
	BSP	Alauddin Khan	31,914	16.81	−10.43
	INC	Ishtiyaq Ahmed Khan	3,984	2.1
	AIMIM	Shahabuddin	3,398	1.79	+0.18
	NOTA	None of the above	1,744	0.92	−0.06
Majority			5,837	3.07	+1.9
Turnout			189,885	51.94	−4.13
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gainsari ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shailesh Kumar Singh	55,716	28.41
	BSP	Alauddin	53,413	27.24
	SP	Shiv Pratap Yadav	46,378	23.65
	Independent	Anurag	27,652	14.1
	AIMIM	Manzoor Alam Khan	3,160	1.61
	NOTA	None of the above	1,914	0.98
Majority			2,303	1.17
Turnout			196,103	56.07
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh
• List of constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly