Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Kunda Assembly Seat
]Uttar Pradesh Election: Kunda Assembly Constituency 2022
Kunda comes under the Pratapgarh district and it is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Kunda voted for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on February 27 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Kunda assembly seat had 3,42,725 registered voters. Of the, 1,85,810 were male and 1,56,915 were female voters. 1.2% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 6 candidates in the fray from Kunda constituency. Kunda was one of 3 seats won by the independent candidates. It was a one way contest with independent candidate Raghuraj Pratap Singh comfortably winning the election upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's Janki Sharan by a huge margin of 1,03,647 votes.
The top two candidates split 86.0% of votes between them. Independent candidate Raghuraj Pratap Singh got a total of 1,36,597 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Janki Sharan secured 32,950 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Parvez Akhtar secured 17,261 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 69.3%, 16.7% and 8.8% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Independent candidate Raghuraj Pratap Singh defeated Bahujan Samaj Party's Shiv Prakash Mishra Senani by 88,255 votes.