Soraon Assembly constituency

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

Soraon
Constituency No. 255 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Prayagraj
Total electors	3,65,758 (2017)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Geeta Shastri
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Soraon is one of five assembly constituencies in the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 255 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2012[2]	Satyaveer Munna		Samajwadi Party
2017	Jamuna Prasad Saroj[3]		Apna Dal
2022	Geeta Shastri[4]		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

Samajwadi Party candidate Geeta Shastri won defeating Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Jamuna Prasad Saroj by a margin of 5,914 votes^[5]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Geeta Shastri	91474	40.99
	AD(S)	Jamuna Prasad Saroj	85660	38.48
	BSP	Anand Bharti	29250	13.11
	INC	Manoj Kumar Pasi	2027	0.91
	NOTA	NOTA	1712	0.77
Majority
Turnout
	SP gain from AD(S)		Swing

2017

Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Jamuna Prasad won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Geeta Devi by a margin of 17,735 votes. In 2012 Samajwadi Party candidate Satyaveer Munna won the Soraon Vidhan Sabha seat.^[3]