Ukhrul assembly constituency has Somatai Shaiza of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking on Alfred Kanngam S. Arthur of the Indian National Congress (INC) and Ram Muivah of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) this year in the Manipur assembly elections. 

Alfred Kanngam Arthur of the INC had won the Ukhrul seat in 2017 when the INC swept Manipur winning 28 of Manipur’s 60 assembly seats. Arthur had beaten his closest rival Somatai Shaiza by over 296 votes. Shaiza had contested that election on a BJP ticket.

In 2012, the seat was won by Samuel Risom of the NPF. 

Ukhrul falls under the Ukhrul district and the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of 28 assembly seats.  

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Lorho S. Pfoze of  Naga People’s Front represented Outer Manipur as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Pfoze defeated Houlim Shokhopao Mate from the BJP with a margin of  73,782 votes.

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The Ukhrul assembly constituency voted in the second phase of the Manipur elections on March 5, 2022, along with 21 other constituencies. 

Results will be declared on March 10, along with those for elections in four other states, including Uttar Pradesh.

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Quick facts about the Ukhrul Assembly seat- 

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Ukhrul, Ukhrul 

Polling date: March 5, 2022

Phase: 2

Sitting MLA, party: K. Leishiyo, NPF

Key candidates, party in 2022: Somatai Shaiza (BJP), Alfred Kanngam S. Arthur (INC), Ram Muivah (NPF)

Winning candidate, party in 2017: Alfred Kanngam Arthur, INC

Runner-up name, party 2017: Somatai Shaiza, BJP

Winning margin in 2017:  296

Top 3 candidates 2017: Alfred Kanngam Arthur (INC), Somatai Shaiza (BJP), Samuel Risom (NPF)

Top 3 candidates 2012:  Samuel Risom (NPF), Alfred Kanngam Arthur (INC), Danny Shaiza (BJP)

Lok Sabha constituency: Outer Manipur