Karhal assembly constituency has Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP) taking on Dr. S.P. Singh Baghel of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Kuldeep Narayan of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and Gyanvati Yadav of the Congress this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Sobaran Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party had won the Karhal seat in 2017, when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Yadav had beaten his closest rival Rama Shakya by over 38,405 votes. Rama Shakya had contested that election on a BJP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Sobaran Singh Yadav of the SP.
Karhal falls under the Mainpuri district and the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats.
Mulayam Singh Yadav of the SP represented Mainpuri as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Yadav defeated Prem Singh Shakya from the BJP with a margin of 9,43,89 votes.
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The Karhal assembly constituency will vote in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections on February 20, 2022, along with 58 other constituencies in 16 districts. Uttar Pradesh will vote in seven rounds, with the last round on March 3.
Results will be declared on March 10, along with those for elections in four other states, including neighbouring Uttarakhand.
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Quick facts about the Karhal Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Karhal, Mainpuri district
Polling date: February 20, 2022
Phase: 3
Sitting MLA, party: Sobaran Singh Yadav, SP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Dr. S.P. Singh Baghel (BJP), Kuldeep Narayan (BSP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Sobaran Singh Yadav, SP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Rama Shakya, BJP
Winning margin in 2017: 38,405
Top 3 candidates 2017: Sobaran Singh Yadav (SP), Rama Shakya (BJP), Dalvir (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Sobaran Singh Yadav (SP), Jaivir Singh (BSP), Anil Kumar Yadav (BJP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Mainpuri
