Marihan assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2017 assembly elections. In this constituency, the BJP’s Rama Shankar Singh defeated his nearest rival, Lalitesh Pati Tripathi of Indian National Congress (INC), by a margin of 46,598 votes.

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The BJP won 312 of the 403 assembly seats in 2017, forming an absolute majority in the state assembly and out-powering the Samajwadi Party. The BJP chose Yogi Adityanath to be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) came second behind the BJP, winning just 47 assembly seats, Mayawati-led BSP was third with 19 seats and the Congress (INC) won mere seven seats.

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As per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008, Marihan is the constituency number 399 of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is an open constituency.

It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency. Anupriya Singh Patel from Apna Dal (Sonelal) is the current Member of Parliament (MP) from the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency.

In the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party had formed the government with 224 seats, the BSP was second, winning 80 seats, the BJP had won 47, and the INC 28.

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In the Assembly elections 2012, the Indian National Congress won the Marihan assembly constituency by a margin of 8,523 votes. The winning INC candidate Laliteshpati Tripathi got 63,492 votes and the runner-up Satyendra Kumar Patel (SP) got 54,969 votes. The voter turnout was 67.10%.

Quick facts about the Marihan assembly seat:

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Marihan, Mirzapur

Name of the winner, party: Rama Shankar Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party

Lok Sabha constituency: Mirzapur

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Top 3 candidates 2017: Rama Shankar Singh (BJP), Lalitesh Pati Tripathi (INC), Awadhesh Kumar Singh (BSP)

Top 3 candidates 2012: Lalitesh Tripathi (INC), Satyendra Kumar Patel (SP), Shivjor Pal (BSP)

Sitting MLA, party: Rama Shanker Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party

Winning margin in 2017: 46,598

Runner up name, party: Lalitesh Pati Tripathi, INC

Number of voters in 2017: 344,921

Percentage of votes polled in 2017: 69.14%