Marhara assembly constituency has Virendra Verma of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Yogesh Kumar of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Amit Gaurav of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Arjun Yadav of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and Tara Rajput of the Congress this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. 

Virendra Verma had won the Marhara seat in 2017, when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Verma had beaten his closest rival Amit Gaurav by over  33,432  votes. Amit Gaurav had contested that election on a SP ticket.

In 2012, the seat was won by Amit Gaurav of the SP.

Marhara falls under the Etah district and the Etah Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats. 

Rajveer Singh of the BJP represented Etah as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Singh defeated Ku. Devendra Singh Yadav from the SP with a margin of 1,22,670 votes. 

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The Marhara 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 Marhara Assembly seat-

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Marhara, Etah district 

Polling date: February 20, 2022

Phase: 3

Sitting MLA, party:  Virendra Verma, BJP

Key candidates, party in 2022:  Virendra Verma (BJP), Amit Gaurav (SP), Yogesh Kumar (BSP)

Winning candidate, party in 2017: Virendra Verma, BJP

Runner-up name, party 2017: Amit Gaurav, SP

Winning margin in 2017:  33,432 

Top 3 candidates 2017: Virendra Verma (BJP), Amit Gaurav (SP), Shalabh Maheshwari (BSP)

Top 3 candidates 2012: Amit Gaurav (SP), Virendra Verma (BJP), Nannu Singh (BSP)

Lok Sabha constituency: Etah