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

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Nitin Aggarwal has won the Hardoi seat beating his close rival Anil Verma of the Samajwadi Party (SP) with a margin of 42,411 votes.

Hardoi assembly constituency has Nitin Aggarwal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Anil Verma of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Shobhit Pathak of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Sushil Kumar Pandey of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Ashish Singh Somvanshi of the Indian National Congress (INC) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Nitin Aggarwal had won the Hardoi seat in 2017, when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Aggarwal had beaten his closest rival Raja Bux Singh by over 5,109 votes. Singh had contested that election on a BJP ticket. Aggarwal had contested that election on a SP ticket. 

In 2012, the seat was won by Nitin Agarwal of the SP.

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

Jai Prakash of the BJP represented Hardoi as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Prakash defeated  Usha Verma from the SP with a margin of 1,32,474 votes. 

The Hardoi assembly constituency will vote in the fourth phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections on February 23, 2022, along with 59 other constituencies in nine districts. Uttar Pradesh will vote in seven rounds, with the last round on March 3. 

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Results will be declared on March 10, along with those for elections in four other states, including neighbouring Uttarakhand.   

Quick facts about the Hardoi Assembly seat-  

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Hardoi, Hardoi district 

Polling date: February 23, 2022

Phase: 4

Sitting MLA, party: Nitin Agarwal, SP

Key candidates, party in 2022: Nitin Agarwal (BJP), Anil Verma (SP), Shobhit Pathak (BSP)

Winning candidate, party in 2017: Nitin Agarwal, SP 

Runner-up name, party 2017: Raja Bux Singh, BJP

Winning margin in 2017: 5,109

Top 3 candidates 2017:  Nitin Agarwal (SP), Raja Bux Singh (BJP), Dharmveer Singh (BSP)

Top 3 candidates 2012: Nitin Agarwal (SP), Raja Bux Singh (BJP), Sukh Sagar Mishra (INC)

Lok Sabha constituency: Hardoi