Karachhana Assembly constituency

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

Karachhana
Constituency No. 260 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Prayagraj
Total electors	335,550 (2019)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Piyush Ranjan Nishad
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022

Karachhana is one of five assembly constituencies in the Prayagraj Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 260 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1993	Nand Lal Patel		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996[1]	Rewati Raman Singh		Samajwadi Party
2002[2]
2004★	Ujjwal Raman Singh
2007	Anand Kumar[3]		Bahujan Samaj Party
2012	Deepak Patel[4]
2017	Ujjwal Raman Singh[5]		Samajwadi Party
2022	Piyush Ranjan Nishad[6]		Bharatiya Janata Party

★By Election

Election results

2022

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Piyush Ranjan Nishad won in 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Ujjwal Raman Singh by a margin of 9,584 votes and Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Arvind Kumar Shukla stood third place by getting 21,930 votes.

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Karachhan^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Piyush Ranjan Nishad	89,527	44.06	+10.96
	SP	Ujjwal Raman Singh	80,199	39.47	−1.19
	BSP	Arvind Kumar Shukla	21,950	10.8	−9.83
	INC	Rinki Patel	4,343	2.14
	NOTA	None of the above	1,891	0.93	−0.24
Majority			9,328	4.59	−2.97
Turnout			203,189	58.06	−1.86
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2017

Samajwadi Party candidate Ujjwal Raman Singh won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Piyush Ranjan Nishad by a margin of 15,024 votes.^[7]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Karachhan^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Ujjwal Raman Singh	80,806	40.66
	BJP	Piyush Ranjan Nishad Sonu	65,782	33.1
	BSP	Deepak Patel	40,998	20.63
	NOTA	None of the above	2,308	1.17
Majority			15,024	7.56
Turnout			198,734	59.92