Azamgarh assembly constituency has Durga Prasad Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP) taking on Akhilesh Mishra of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Sushil Kumar Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Praveen Kumar Singh of the Indian National Congress (INC), and Kripa Shankar Pathak of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Durga Prasad Yadav of the SP had won the Azamgarh seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Yadav had beaten his closest rival Akhilesh Mishra by over 26,262 votes. Mishra had contested that election on a BJP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Durga Prasad Yadav of the SP.
Azamgarh falls under the Azamgarh district and the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats.
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Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party represented Azamgarh as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Yadav defeated Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua from the BJP with a margin of 2,59,874 votes.
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The Azamgarh 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 Azamgarh Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Azamgarh, Azamgarh
Polling date: March 7, 2022
Phase: 7
Sitting MLA, party: Durga Prasad Yadav, SP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Durga Prasad Yadav (SP), Akhilesh Mishra (BJP), Sushil Kumar Singh (BSP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Durga Prasad Yadav, SP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Akhilesh Mishra, BJP
Winning margin in 2017: 26,262
Top 3 candidates 2017: Durga Prasad Yadav (SP), Akhilesh Mishra (BJP), Bhupendra Singh (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Durga Prasad Yadav (SP), Sarvesh Singh Sipu (BSP), Jai Nath (BJP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Azamgarh
