Uttar Pradesh’s Dadraul assembly constituency has Bharatiya Janata Party‘s (BJP) Manvendra Singh taking on Rajesh Kumar Verma of the Samajwadi Party’s (SP) and Tanveer Safdar of the Indian National Congress in the assembly elections 2022. 

The seat was won by BJP in 2017, with candidate Manvendra Singh defeating SP’s Rammurti Singh Verma with a margin of 17,398 votes.

Manvendra Singh received 86,435

votes while his nearest rival Verma got 69,037 votes.

In 2012, the seat was won by SP’s Rammurti Singh Verma with 61,967 votes, and Rizwan Ali of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) followed in a close second with 57,088 votes.

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The Dadraul constituency falls under 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 Dardraul 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: Dadraul, Shahjahanpur district

Polling date: February 14, 2022

Phase: 2

Sitting MLA, party: Manvendra Singh, BJP

Winning candidate, party in 2017: Manvendra Singh, BJP

Runner-up name, party 2017: Rammurti Singh Verma, SP

Winning margin in 2017: 17,398 votes

Top 3 candidates 2017: Manvendra Singh (BJP), Rammurti Singh Verma (SP), Rizwan Ali (BSP)

Top 2 candidates 2012: Rammurti Singh Verma (SP), Rizwan Ali (BSP)

Lok Sabha constituency: Shahjahanpur