Charthawal (UP) assembly election 2022: Date, result, candidates list and latest news

Uttar Pradesh‘s Charthawal assembly constituency was won in 2017 by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with the party’s Vijay Kumar Kashyap defeating the Samajwadi Party’s Mukesh Kumar Chaudhary, who came in second. Kashyap’s margin of victory was 23231 votes. 

Charthawal is one of the five assembly segments in western UP’s Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency. All five were won by the BJP. For three elections before 2017, Charthawal was won by Mayawat’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

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In 2012, the BSP’s Noor Saleem Rana had defeated both Vijay Kumar Kashyap and Mukesh Kumar Chaudhary, in that order, to win the seat. 

The BSP and Noor Saleem Rana’s poor third position in Charthawal in 2017 reflected the party’s extreme downturn of fortunes in that year’s assembly election. The BSP slid from 80 seats in 2012 to only 19 in 2017. Its ignominy was matched only by that of the Congress, which won seven. 

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UP was handsomely won in 2017 by the BJP, which posted big gains across all regions of the state to win 312 seats. The state has 403 assembly seats and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party was a faaway number 2 at 47 seats. 

Akhilesh Yadav has been building alliances with local parties in the run-up to this year’s assembly elections in a bid to reclaim the state he headed as chief minister from 2012 to 2017. Current chief minister, Yogi Adityanath of the BJP hopes to get a second term.

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Elections will be held in Charthawal on February 10, 2022, when UP votes in the first of seven phases. Votes will be counted for all seven phases on March 10. Counting of votes will adobe held that day for assembly elections in four other states – Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur 

Quick facts about the Charthawal Assembly seat  

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Charthawal, Muzaffarnagar district 

Polling date: February 10, 2022

Phase: 1

Sitting MLA, party: Vijay Kumar Kashyap BJP  

Winning candidate, party in 2017: Vijay Kumar Kashyap BJP  

Runner-up name, party in 2017:  Mukesh Kumar Chaudhary, SP

Top 3 candidates 2017 :  Vijay Kumar Kashyap (BJP), Mukesh Kumar Chaudhary (SP), Noor Saleem Rana (BSP)

Top 3 candidates 2012: Noor Saleem Rana (BSP), Vijay Kumar (BJP), Mukesh Kumar Chaudhary (SP) 

Lok Sabha constituency: Muzaffarnagar

Research by Ashni Varghese MV