Mathura assembly constituency has Shrikant Sharma of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Pradeep Mathur of the Indian National Congress (INC), Devendra Agrawal of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Jagjit Chaudhary of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Shrikant Sharma had won the Mathura seat in 2017, when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Sharma had beaten his closest rival Pradeep Mathur by over 100,000 votes. Pradeep Mathur had contested that election on a Congress ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Pradeep Mathur of the INC.
Mathura falls under Mathura district and the Mathura Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats – Chhata, Mant, Goverdhan, Mathura and Baldev.
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After the “DPACO (1956)” (delimitation order) was passed in 1956, the first election in this assembly constituency was conducted in 1957. The seat was given the number 84 after the “Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order” was passed in 2008.
The Mathura assembly constituency will vote in the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections on February 10, 2022, along with 57 other constituencies in 11 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.
Quick facts about the Mathura Assembly seat
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Mathura, Mathura district
Polling date: February 10, 2022
Phase: 1
Sitting MLA, party: Shrikant Sharma, BJP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Pradeep Mathur (INC),
Shrikant Sharma (BJP), Devendra Agrawal (SP), Jagjit Chaudhary (BSP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Shrikant Sharma, BJP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Pradeep Mathur, INC
Winning margin in 2017: 101,161
Top 2 candidates 2017: Shrikant Sharma (BJP), Pradeep Mathur (INC)
Top 2 candidates 2012: Pradeep Mathur (INC), Devendra Kumar Sharma (BJP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Mathura