Raniganj, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Raniganj (disambiguation).

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

Raniganj
Constituency No. 250 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Pratapgarh
Total electors	3,36,072
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dr. R.K.Verma
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Raniganj is one of five assembly constituencies in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 250 amongst 403 constituencies. Dr RK Verma from Samajwadi Party is current MLA.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012	Shivakant Ojha		Samajwadi Party
2017	Dheeraj Ojha		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Rakesh Kumar Verma		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Dr. R K Verma	75,583	40.05	+18.71
	BJP	Abhay Kumar (Dheeraj Ojha)	72,934	38.65	+0.82
	BSP	Ajay Yadav	21,411	11.35	−21.4
	AIMIM	Anil Kumar	11,748	6.23
	NOTA	None of the above	1,139	0.6	−0.12
Majority			2,649	1.4	−3.68
Turnout			188,715	56.15	+0.05
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party's Dhiraj Ojha won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Shakeel Ahmad Khan by a margin of 9,009 votes.^[4]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Ranigan^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Abhay Kumar Alias Dhiraj Ojha	67,031	37.83
	BSP	Shakeel Ahmad Khan	58,022	32.75
	SP	Prof.Shivakant Ojha	37,816	21.34
	NISHAD	Shreenath	2,052	1.16
	Independent	Prananjany	1,874	1.06
	NOTA	None of the above	1,259	0.72
Majority			9,009	5.08
Turnout			177,190	56.1