Mainpuri assembly constituency has Raju Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP) taking on Jaiveer Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Gaurav Nand of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and Vineeta Shakya of the Congress this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Raju Yadav had won the Mainpuri seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Yadav had beaten his closest rival Ashok Kumar by over 8,831 votes. Ashok Kumar had contested that election on a BJP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Raju Yadav of the SP.
Mainpuri falls under the Mainpuri district and the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats.
Mulayam Singh Yadav of the SP represented Mainpuri as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Yadav defeated Prem Singh Shakya from the BJP with a margin of 9,43,89 votes.
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The Mainpuri assembly constituency will vote in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections on February 20, 2022, along with 58 other constituencies in 16 districts. Uttar Pradesh will vote in seven rounds, with the last round on March 3.
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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 Mainpuri Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Mainpuri, Mainpuri district
Polling date: February 20, 2022
Phase: 3
Sitting MLA, party: Raju Yadav, SP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Raju Yadav (SP), Jaiveer Singh (BJP), Gaurav Nand (BSP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Raju Yadav, SP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Ashok Kumar, BJP
Winning margin in 2017: 8,831
Top 3 candidates 2017: Raju Yadav, (SP), Ashok Kumar (BJP), Maharaj Singh (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Raju Yadav (SP), Rama Shakya (BSP), Prof Kalicharan Yadav (INC)
Lok Sabha constituency: Mainpuri
