Atrauliya assembly constituency has Dr. Sangram Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP) taking on Prashant Singh of the Nishad party, Ramesh Chandra Dubey of the Indian National Congress (INC), and Saroj Kumar of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Dr.Sangram Yadav of the SP had won the Atrauliya seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Yadav had beaten his closest rival Kanhaiya Lal Nishad by over 2467 votes. Nishad had contested that election on a BJP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Dr. Sangram Yadav of the SP.
Atrauliya falls under the Azamgarh district and the Lalganj Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats.
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Sangeeta Azad of the BSP represented Lalganj as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Azad defeated Neelam Sonker from the BJP with a margin of 1,61,597 votes.
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The Atrauliya assembly constituency will vote in the seventh phase and the last round of the Uttar Pradesh elections on March 7, 2022, along with 53 other constituencies in 9 districts.
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 Atrauliya Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Atrauliya, Azamgarh
Polling date: March 7, 2022
Phase: 7
Sitting MLA, party: Dr.Sangram Yadav, SP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Dr. Sangram Yadav (SP), Saroj Kumar (BSP), Ramesh Chandra Dubey (INC)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Dr. Sangram Yadav, SP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Kanhaiya Lal Nishad, BJP
Winning margin in 2017: 2,467
Top 3 candidates 2017: Dr. Sangram Yadav (SP), Kanhaiya Lal Nishad (BJP), Akhand Pratap Singh (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Dr. Sangram Yadav (SP), Surendra Prasad Mishra (BSP), Rajesh Yadav (SBSP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Lalganj
