Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Zafrabad Assembly Seat
]Uttar Pradesh Election: Zafrabad Assembly Constituency 2022
Zafrabad comes under the Jaunpur district and it is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Zafrabad voted for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on March 7 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Zafrabad assembly seat had 3,68,198 registered voters. Of the, 1,94,931 were male and 1,73,267 were female voters. 0.3% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, there were 15 candidates in the fray from Zafrabad constituency. Zafrabad was one of 312 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bharatiya Janata Party's Dr Harendra Prasad Singh won the election upstaging Samajwadi Party's Shachindra Nath Tripathi by a margin of 24,865 votes.
93.8% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Bharatiya Janata Party's Dr Harendra Prasad Singh grabbed a total of 85,989 votes, while Samajwadi Party's Shachindra Nath Tripathi got 61,124 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Sanjiv Kuamr Upadhyay bagged 45,490 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 41.9%, 29.8% and 22.2% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Samajwadi Party's Sachindra Nath Tripathi outperformed Bahujan Samaj Party's Jagdish Narayan by 5,417 votes.