Harraiya Assembly constituency

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

Harraiya
Constituency No. 307 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Basti
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ajay Kumar Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2017

Harraiya is one of five assembly constituencies in the Basti Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 307 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[3]	Party
1957	Ran Bahadur Singh		Indian National Congress
1962
1967	Budhi Ram		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969	Lalu		Indian National Congress
1977	Sukhpal Pandey		Janata Party
1980	Surendra Pratap Narayan		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Sukhpal Pandey		Lokdal
1989	Surendra Pratap Narayan		Indian National Congress
1991	Jagdamba Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996	Sukhpal Pandey		Bahujan Samaj Party
2002	Raj Kishor Singh
2007			Samajwadi Party
2012
2017	Ajay Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Harraiya^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ajay Singh	88,200	39.85	5.35
	SP	Tarayambak Nath	69,871	31.57	0.4
	BSP	Raj Kishor Singh	55,697	25.16	6.64
	INC	Laboni Singh	2,008	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	1,704	0.77	0.3
Majority			18,329	8.28	5.75
Turnout			221,334	56.91	1.27
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Ajay Kumar Singh who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Raj Kishor Singh by a margin of 30,106 votes.^[5]

2017 General Elections: Harraiya^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Singh	97,014	45.2
	SP	Raj Kishor Singh	66,908	31.17
	BSP	Vipin Kumar Shukla	39,749	18.52
	RLD	Chandramani Pandey	1,950	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	2,274	1.07
Majority			30,106	14.03
Turnout			214,632	58.18
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	+2.21

2012

2012 General Elections: Harraiya

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Raj Kishor Singh	84,409	43.33	−
	BSP	Mamta Pandey	64,123	32.91	−
	INC	Ajay Kumar Singh	25,607	13.14	−
	BJP	Anuradha Chaudhary	10,652	5.47
		Remainder 12 candidates	10,035	5.15	−
Majority			20,286	10.41
Turnout			1,94,826	59.00
	SP hold		Swing