Kunda Assembly constituency

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

Kunda
Constituency No. 29 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Pratapgarh
Total electors	3,57,938
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Raghuraj Pratap Singh
Party	Jansatta Dal(L)
Elected year	2022

Kunda (कुंडा / कुंडाहरनामगंज) is one of five assembly constituencies in the Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 246 amongst 403 constituencies.

Since 1993 this seat belongs to Jansatta Dal Loktantrik candidate Raghuraj Pratap Singh (Raja Bhaiya), who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Gulshan Yadav by a margin of around 30,000 votes.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Ram Naresh Shukla		Indian National Congress
	Ram Swaroop
1957	Nand Ram		Independent
	Gaya Prasad
1962	Niyaz Hasan Khan		Indian National Congress
1967
1969	Jai Ram		Samyukta Socialist Party
1974	Niyaz Hasan Khan		Indian National Congress (O)
1977	Shashi Prabha		Janata Party
1980	Niyaz Hasan Khan		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989
1991	Shivnarayan Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993	Raghuraj Pratap Singh		Independent
1996
2002
2007
2012
2017
2022			Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)

Election results

2022 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2022: Kunda^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Jansatta Dal (L)	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	99,612	50.58
	SP	Gulshan Yadav	69,297	39.79
	BJP	Sindhuja Mishra Senani	16,455	8.36
	BSP	Mohd Phaheem	1,345	1.20
	BMP	Dharmaraj	1,085	0.81
Majority			30,315	12.39
Turnout			1,96,940
	Jansatta Dal (L) gain from Independent		Swing

2017 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Kunda^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	1,36,223	69.32
	BJP	Janki Sharan	32,950	16.39
	BSP	Parvez Akhtar	17,261	8.59
	Independent	Bhagwandeen	5,514	2.74
	Independent	Ram Kripal	2,615	1.30
	BMP	Jiya Lal	2,109	1.05
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,992	1.99
Majority			1,03,647	52.93
Turnout			2,01,080	58.64
	Independent hold		Swing

2012 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Kunda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	1,11,392	67.96
	BSP	Shiv Prakash Mishra	23,137	14.12
	INC	Ram Shankar	14,341	8.75
	BJP	Tribhuvan	3,515	2.14
	Independent	Panna Lal	3,216	1.96
Majority			88,255	53.84
Turnout			1,63,912	51.96
	Independent hold		Swing

2007 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007: Kunda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	73,732
	BSP	Shiv Prakash Mishra	20,604
	AD(K)	Thakur Prakash Singh	9,241
	INC	Kunwar Amresh Singh	5928
Majority			53,128
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing

2002 Vidhan Sabha elections

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2002: Kunda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	88,446	82.13
	SP	Mohammad Sami	6,768	6.28
	BSP	Yogendra Nath Mishra Maula	3,583	3.33
	Independent	Harivansh Kumar	2,213	2.06
	INC	Shiv Baran Singh	1,823	1.69
Majority			81,678	75.85
Turnout			1,07,687	44.92
	Independent hold		Swing