Mungra Badshahpur assembly constituency has Ajay Dubey of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Pankaj of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Dinesh Kumar Shukla of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and Pramod Singh of the Indian National Congress (INC) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Sushma Patel of the BSP had won the Mungra Badshahpur seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Patel had beaten her closest rival Seema Dwivedi by over 5,920 votes. Dwivedi had contested that election on a BJP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Seema Dwivedi of the BJP.
Mungra Badshahpur 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 Mungra Badshahpur 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 Mungra Badshahpur Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Mungra Badshahpur, Jaunpur
Polling date: March 7, 2022
Phase: 7
Sitting MLA, party: Sushma Patel, BSP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Ajay Dubey (BJP), Dinesh Kumar Shukla (BSP), Pramod Singh (INC)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Sushma Patel, BSP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Seema Dwivedi, BJP
Winning margin in 2017: 5,920
Top 3 candidates 2017: Sushma Patel (BSP), Seema Dwivedi (BJP), Ajay Shankar Dubey (INC)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Seema Dwivedi (BJP), Ramesh (BSP), Vinod Kumar (SP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Jaunpur
