Obra, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

Obra
Constituency No. 402 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictSonbhadra
Total electors3,27,556
ReservationST
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
Elected year2017

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

Obra is one of five assembly constituencies in the Robertsganj Lok Sabha constituency and is reserved for candidates of the Scheduled Tribes.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member[1] Party
Till 2012 : Constituency did not exist
2012 Sunil Kumar Singh Yadav Bahujan Samaj Party
2017 Sanjiv Kumar Gond Bharatiya Janata Party
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Obra[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Sanjeev Kumar Gond 78,364 48.04 +0.11
SP Arvind Kumar Alias Sunil Singh Gond 51,922 31.83 +11.08
BSP Subhash Kharwar 20,131 12.34 −5.54
INC Ramraj 4,519 2.77
VIP Umashankar 2,184 1.34
NOTA None of the above 3,077 1.89 −0.83
Majority 26,442 16.21 −10.97
Turnout 163,139 49.8 −3.1
BJP hold Swing


2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Sanjiv Kumar won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Ravi Gond by a margin of 44,269 votes.[3]

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election: Obr[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Sanjiv Kumar 78,058 47.93
SP Ravi Gond 33,789 20.75
BSP Virendra Pratap Singh 29,113 17.88
Independent Subhash Kharvar 6,198 3.81
CPI Bahadur Ram Panika 3,272 2.01
NISHAD Jagdeesh Baiga 1,825 1.12
Independent Ram Surat 1,709 1.05
All India Peoples' Front (Radical) Kripa Shankar 1,631 1.0
NOTA None of the above 4,305 2.72
Majority 44,269 27.18
Turnout 162,843 52.9


References

  1. ^ "Obra Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  2. ^ "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  3. ^ a b "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.

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