Nizamabad assembly constituency has Alambadi Azmi of the Samajwadi Party (SP) taking on Manoj Yadav of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Piyush Kumar Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Anil Kumar Yadav of the Indian National Congress (INC), and Shahriyar Mohammed Sadiq of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Alambadi Azmi of the SP had won the Nizamabad seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Azmi had beaten his closest rival Chandra Dev Ram by over 18,529 votes. Ram had contested that election on a BSP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Alambadi Azmi of the SP.
Nizamabad falls under the Azamgarh district and the Lalganj Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats.
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Sangeeta Azad of the Bahujan Samaj Party represented Lalganj as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Azad defeated Neelam Sonker from the BJP with a margin of 1,61,597 votes.
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The Nizamabad 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 Nizamabad Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Nizamabad, Azamgarh
Polling date: March 7, 2022
Phase: 7
Sitting MLA, party: Alambadi Azmi, SP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Alambadi Azmi (SP), Manoj Yadav (BJP), Piyush Kumar Singh (BSP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Alambadi Azmi, SP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Chandra Dev Ram, BSP
Winning margin in 2017: 18,529
Top 3 candidates 2017: Alambadi Azmi (SP), Chandra Dev Ram (BSP), Vinod Kumar Rai (BJP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Alambadi Azmi (SP), Kalamuddin Khan (BSP), Ranjana Devi (BJP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Lalganj
