About Rasara Assembly Constituency

Rasara is constituency No. 358 of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly.It is situated in Ballia district in Purvanchal region of the state. It comes under Ghosi Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Rasara Assembly Constituency has 3,05,817 registered voters. It comprises 1,69,246 male, 1,36,549 female registered voters and 22 more in Others category.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) defeated the Samajwadi Party (SP) by a whopping 52,825 votes, that is, 29.29% of the total valid votes, to win this constituency in 2012. BSP's winning candidate Umashankar got 84,436 votes. The runner-up was Sanatan of Samajwadi Party who got 31,611votes. The voter turnout was 59.27 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Rasara Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Rasara assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2017	358	Rasara	GEN	Uma Shanker Singh	M	BSP	92272	Ram Iqball Singh	M	BJP	58385
2012	358	Rasara	GEN	Umashankar	M	BSP	84436	Sanatan	M	SP	31611
2007	205	Rasra	(SC)	Ghoora Ram	M	BSP	27018	Anil Kumar	M	BJP	23709
2002	205	Rasra	(SC)	Ghoora Ram	M	BSP	48396	Ghura	M	SP	38378
1996	221	Rasra	(SC)	Anil Kumar	M	BJP	49766	Ghura Ram	M	BSP	38865
1993	221	Rasra	(SC)	Ghura Ram	M	BSP	41562	Anil	M	BJP	37654
1991	221	Rasra	(SC)	Ghurabu	M	JD	20502	Ram Bachan	M	INC	19910
1989	221	Rasra	(SC)	Ram Bachan	M	INC	29374	Ramdeen	M	JD	27613
1985	221	Rasra	(SC)	Har Deo	M	INC	22618	Ram Din	M	JNP	17765
1980	221	Rasra	(SC)	Hardeva	M	INC(I)	17375	Raghunath	M	CPI	8540
1977	221	Rasra	(SC)	Mannu Ram	M	JNP	23649	Raghunath	M	CPI	22951
1974	221	Rasra	(SC)	Raghu Nath	M	CPI	21080	Mannu Ram	M	BKD	16954
1969	226	Rasra	(SC)	Ram Ratan	M	INC	17394	Raghu Nath	M	CPI	17102
1967	226	Rasra	(SC)	R. Ratan	M	INC	14022	Mahadeo	M	CPI	12993
1962	232	Rasra	(SC)	Raghunath	M	CPI	18696	Ram Ratan	M	INC	16197
1957	216	Rasra	(SC)	Ganga Pd. Singh	M	INC	29064	Kapil Deo	M	CPI	22806
1957	216	Rasra	(SC)	Ram Ratan	M	INC	24740	Raghunath	M	CPI	21251