Malhani assembly constituency has K.P. Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Lucky Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Shailendra Yadav of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Pushpa Shukla of the Indian National Congress (INC) and Jay Prakash of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Parasnath Yadav of the SP had won the Malhani seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Yadav had beaten his closest rival Dhananjaya Singh by over 21,210 votes. Singh had contested that election on a Nishad Party ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Parasnath Yadav of the SP.
Malhani falls under the Jaunpur district and the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats.
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Shyam Singh Yadav of BSP represented Jaunpur as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Yadav defeated Krishna Pratap Singh from the BJP with a margin of 80,936 votes.
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The Malhani 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 Malhani Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Malhani, Jaunpur
Polling date: March 7, 2022
Phase: 7
Sitting MLA, party: Lucky Yadav, SP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Lucky Yadav (SP), K.P. Singh (BJP), Shailendra Yadav (BSP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Parasnath Yadav, SP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Dhananjay Singh, Nishad Party
Winning margin in 2017: 21,210
Top 3 candidates 2017: Parasnath Yadav (SP), Dhananjay Singh (Nishad Party), Vivek Yadav (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Parasnath Yadav (SP), Dr.Jagriti Singh (IND), Panini Singh (BSP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Jaunpur
