Uttar Pradesh’s Powayan assembly constituency was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2017, with the party’s Chetram defeating Samajwadi Party’s (SP) Sakuntla Devi, who came in second. 

Chetram received 1,26,635 votes and won by a margin of 72,417 votes over his nearest rival, Devi, who got 54,218 votes. 

In 2012, the seat was won by SP’s Sakuntla Devi with 59,871 votes, and Arun Kumar Sagar of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) followed in a close second with 50,973 votes.

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The Powayan constituency is a part of the Shahjahanpur district and is one of the five assembly constituencies in the Shahjahanpur Lok Sabha constituency.

The BJP had won 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats in 2017, earning an absolute majority in the Vidhan Sabha or state assembly and ousting the Samajwadi Party. The BJP chose Yogi Adityanath to be UP’s chief minister. 

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The Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav came in a poor second behind the BJP, winning 47 assembly seats, Mayawati’s BSP was third with 19 and the Congress settled for fourth with seven seats. 

The Powayan assembly constituency votes in the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections on February 14, 2022, along with 57 other constituencies in 11 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.

Quick facts about the Powayan Assembly seat

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Powayan, Shahjahanpur district

Polling date: February 14, 2022

Phase: 2

Sitting MLA, party: Chetram, BJP

Winning candidate, party in 2017: Chetram, BJP

Runner-up name, party 2017: Sakuntla Devi, SP

Winning margin in 2017: 72,417 votes

Top 3 candidates 2017: Chetram (BJP), Sakuntla Devi (SP), Gurbachan Lal (BSP)

Top 2 candidates 2012: Sakuntla Devi (SP), Arun Kumar Sagar (BSP)

Lok Sabha constituency: Shahjahanpur