Rohaniya is a constituency of the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, also known as Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house. Member of the Legislative Assembl ...

covering the town of Rohaniya in the

Varanasi district Varanasi district is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with the holy city of Varanasi as the district headquarters. It is also the headquarters of the Varanasi division which contains 4 districts (including Varanasi). It is s ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

, India. It is a ''Patel'' dominant seat. The constituency number is 387. Rohaniya is one of five assembly constituencies in the

Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency) Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Uttar Pradesh state in India. Narendra Modi has been elected thrice from this constituency to become the Prime Minister of India. His party, the Bharatiya ...

. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 387 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

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Election results

2022

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, ...

candidate ''Surendra Narayan Singh'' belonging to the

Bhumihar Bhumihar, also locally called Bhuinhar and Babhan, a Hindu Indian caste system, caste mainly found in Bihar (including the Mithila (region), Mithila region), the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, the Bundelkhand region of Madhya ...

community, won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

candidate ''Mahendra Singh Patel'' by a margin of 57,553 votes.

2014 By-election

2012

References

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* {{coord, 25.97, 81.38, display=title Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Politics of Varanasi district Constituencies established in 2008 2008 establishments in Uttar Pradesh