Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Shekhupur Assembly Seat
]Uttar Pradesh Election: Shekhupur Assembly Constituency 2022
Shekhupur is the assembly constituency which comes under the Budaun district. It is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 for Shekhupur was held on February 14 and the result was declared on March 10.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2017, there were 3,77,652 registered voters for Shekhupur assembly seat, out of which 2,07,778 were male and 1,69,874 were female voters. 0.5% of voters opted for for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 9 candidates in the fray from Shekhupur constituency. Shekhupur was one of 312 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's Dharmendra Kumar Singh Shakya won the election upstaging Samajwadi Party's Ashish Yadav by a margin of 23,386 votes.
97.6% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Bharatiya Janata Party's Dharmendra Kumar Singh Shakya grabbed a total of 93,702 votes, while Samajwadi Party's Ashish Yadav got 70,316 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Mohd. Rizwan bagged 64,327 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 40.0%, 30.0% and 27.5% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Samajwadi Party's Ashish Yadav beat Indian National Congress's Bhagvan Singh Shakya by 8,252 votes.