Phoolpur Pawai assembly constituency has Ramakant of the Samajwadi Party (SP) taking on Ramsurat Rajbhar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shakeel Ahmad of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Mohammed Shahid of the Indian National Congress (INC), and Kiran of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Arun Kumar Yadav of the BJP had won the Phoolpur Pawai seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Yadav had beaten his closest rival Abul Qais Azmi by over 7,295 votes. Azmi had contested that election on a BSP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Shyam Bahadur Singh Yadav of the SP.
Phoolpur Pawai 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 Phoolpur Pawai 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 Phoolpur Pawai Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Phoolpur Pawai, Azamgarh
Polling date: March 7, 2022
Phase: 7
Sitting MLA, party: Arun Kumar Yadav, BJP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Ramsurat Rajbhar (BJP), Shakeel Ahmad (BSP), Ramakant (SP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Arun Kumar Yadav, BJP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Abul Qais Azmi, BSP
Winning margin in 2017: 7,295
Top 3 candidates 2017: Arun Kumar Yadav (BJP), Abul Qais Azmi (BSP), Shyam Bahadur Singh Yadav (SP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Shyam Bahadur Singh Yadav (SP), Abul Qais Azmi (BSP), Ajay Naresh Yadav (INC)
Lok Sabha constituency: Lalganj
