Naugawan Sadat assembly constituency has Devendra Nagpal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Samarpal Singh of the Samajwadi Party (SP), and Sadaab Khan Alias Tata of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Sangeeta Chauhan was elected for the Naugawan Sadat seat in 2020, when her husband, Chetan Chauhan – the sitting MLA- died of multiple organ failure after contracting COVID. Chetan Chauhan had won the 2017 assembly elections when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Chauhan had beaten her closest rival Javed Abbas by a margin of 15,077 votes. Javed Abbas had contested that election on an SP ticket.
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In 2012, the seat was won by Ashfaq Ali Khan of the SP.
Naugawan Sadat is part of the Amroha City and falls in the Amroha Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats – four of these are in the Amroha district and one in the Hapur district.
The Naugawan Sadat assembly constituency votes in the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections on February 14, 2022, along with 55 other constituencies in 9 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 Naugawan Sadat Assembly seat
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Naugawan Sadat, Amroha district
Polling date: February 14, 2022
Phase: 2
Sitting MLA, party: Sangeeta Chauhan, BJP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Devendra Nagpal (BJP), Samarpal Singh (SP), Sadaab Khan Alias Tata (BSP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Chetan Chauhan, BJP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Javed Abbas, SP
Winning margin in 2017: 20,648
Top 3 candidates 2017: Chetan Chauhan (BJP), Javed Abbas (SP), Jaidev (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Ashfaq Ali Khan (SP), Rahul Kumar (BSP), Anshu Nagpal (RLD)
Lok Sabha constituency: Amroha
