Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Payagpur Assembly Seat
]Uttar Pradesh Election: Payagpur Assembly Constituency 2022
Payagpur comes under the Bahraich district and it is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Payagpur voted for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on February 27 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Payagpur assembly seat had 3,63,000 registered voters. Of the, 1,93,954 were male and 1,69,046 were female voters. 0.8% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 9 candidates in the fray from Payagpur constituency. Payagpur was one of 312 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. It was a one way contest with Bharatiya Janata Party's Subhash Tripathi comfortably winning the election upstaging Samajwadi Party's Mukesh Srivastava Alias Gyanendera Pratap by a huge margin of 41,541 votes.
The top three candidates split 94.5% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Subhash Tripathi got a total of 1,02,254 votes, while Samajwadi Party's Mukesh Srivastava Alias Gyanendera Pratap secured 60,713 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Mohd. Mushraf grabbed the third spot with 29,122 votes. The top three parties got 50.3%, 29.9% and 14.3% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Indian National Congress's Mukesh Srivastava Alias Gyanendra Pratap beat Bahujan Samaj Party's Ajit Pratap Singh by 27,026 votes.