Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Purwa Assembly Seat
]Uttar Pradesh Election: Purwa Assembly Constituency 2022
Purwa is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Unnao district. People of Purwa voted for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on February 23 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Purwa assembly seat had 3,90,055 registered voters. Of the, 2,14,922 were male and 1,75,133 were female voters. 0.7% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 9 candidates in the fray from Purwa constituency. Purwa was one of 19 seats won by the Bahujan Samaj Party. Bahujan Samaj Party's Anil Singh won the election upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's Uttam Chandra Urf Rakesh Lodhi by a margin of 26,483 votes.
97.8% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Bahujan Samaj Party's Anil Singh grabbed a total of 97,567 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Uttam Chandra Urf Rakesh Lodhi got 71,084 votes. Samajwadi Party's candidate Uday Raj bagged 68,114 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 40.3%, 29.3% and 28.1% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Samajwadi Party's Uday Raj outperformed Bahujan Samaj Party's Narendra Singh Lodhi by 27,901 votes.