Machhlishahr assembly constituency has Mihilal Gautam of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Dr. Ragini of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Vijay Kumar of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Mala Devi Sonkar of the Indian National Congress (INC) and Premchand Gautam of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Jagdish Sonkar of the SP had won the Machhlishahr seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Sonkar had beaten his closest rival Anita Rawat by over 4,179 votes. Rawat had contested that election on a BJP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Jagdish Sonkar of the SP.
Machhlishahr falls under the Jaunpur district and the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats.
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B. P. Saroj of BJP represented Machhlishahr as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Saroj defeated Tribhuvan Ram from the BSP with a margin of 181 votes.
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The Machhlishahr 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 Machhlishahr Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Machhlishahr, Jaunpur
Polling date: March 7, 2022
Phase: 7
Sitting MLA, party: Jagdish Sonkar, SP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Mihilal Gautam (BJP), Dr. Ragini (SP), Vijay Kumar (BSP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Jagdish Sonkar, SP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Anita Rawat, BJP
Winning margin in 2017: 4,179
Top 3 candidates 2017: Jagdish Sonkar (SP), Anita Rawat (BJP), Sushila Saroj (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Jagdish Sonkar (SP), Rampher Gautam (BSP), Vinod Kumar Nigam (BJP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Machhlishahr
