Hamirpur assembly constituency has Manoj Prajapati of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Ram Prakash Prajapati of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Ram Phool Nishad of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Rajkumari Singh of the Congress this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. 

Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel had won the Hamirpur seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Chandel had beaten his closest rival Dr Manoj Kumar Prajapati by a margin of 48,655 votes. Dr Manoj Kumar Prajapati had contested that election on an SP ticket.

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In 2012, the seat was won by Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti of the BJP.

Hamirpur falls under the Hamirpur district and the Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats – two of these are in Hamirpur district, two in Mahoba, and one in Banda.

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The Hamirpur assembly constituency will vote in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections on February 20, 2022, along with 59 other constituencies in 16 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.

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Quick facts about the Hamirpur Assembly seat

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

Polling date: February 20, 2022

Phase: 3

Sitting MLA, party: Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel, BJP

Key candidates, party in 2022: Manoj Prajapati (BJP), Ram Prakash Prajapati (SP), Ram Phool Nishad (BSP), and Rajkumari Singh (Congress)

Winning candidate, party in 2017: Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel, BJP

Runner-up name, party 2017: Dr Manoj Kumar Prajapati, SP

Winning margin in 2017: 48,655

Top 3 candidates 2017: Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel (BJP), Dr Manoj Kumar Prajapati (SP), Sanjeev Kumar Urf Sanjay Dixit (BSP)

Top 3 candidates 2012: Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (BJP), Fateh Muhammad Khan (BSP),  Shivcharan Prajapati (SP)

Lok Sabha constituency: Hamirpur