Rasara Assembly constituency

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

Rasra
Constituency No. 358 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ballia
Total electors	3,56,377
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Umashankar Singh
Party	Bahujan Samaj Party
Elected year	2022

Rasra is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ghosi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 358 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently the seat belongs to Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Umashankar Singh who won in last Assembly election of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Ram Iqball Singh by a margin of 33,887 votes.^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1957	Ram Ratan		Indian National Congress
	Ganga Prasad Singh
1962	Raghunath		Communist Party of India
1967	Ram Ratan		Indian National Congress
1969
1974	Raghunath		Communist Party of India
1977	Mannu Ram		Janata Party
1980	Hardeo		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Ram Bachan
1991	Ghurhu		Janata Dal
1993	Ghoora Ram		Bahujan Samaj Party
1996	Anil Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Ghoora Ram		Bahujan Samaj Party
2007
2012	Umashankar Singh
2017
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Rasara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Umashankar Singh	87,887	43.82
	SBSP	Mahendra Chauhan	81,304	40.54
	BJP	Babban Rajbhar	24,235	12.08
	ASP(KR)	Chandan	2,605	1.30
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,339	0.67
	INC	Hemlata	1,294	0.65
Majority			6,583
Turnout
	BSP hold		Swing