Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Puranpur Assembly Seat
]Uttar Pradesh Election: Puranpur Assembly Constituency 2022
Puranpur is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Pilibhit district. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 for Puranpur will be held on February 23 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Puranpur assembly seat had 3,69,514 registered voters. Of the, 1,99,810 were male and 1,69,704 were female voters. 0.6% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 8 candidates in the fray from Puranpur constituency. Puranpur was one of 312 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's Babu Ram Paswan won the election upstaging Samajwadi Party's Peetam Ram by a margin of 39,242 votes.
The top two candidates split 89.0% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Babu Ram Paswan got a total of 1,28,493 votes, while Samajwadi Party's Peetam Ram secured 89,251 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Er.K.K. Arvind secured 20,139 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 52.5%, 36.5% and 8.2% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Samajwadi Party's Peetam Ram beat Bharatiya Janata Party's Babu Ram by 30,838 votes.