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Mainpuri Lok Sabha elections: Voter turnout reaches 58.59%
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Mainpuri Lok Sabha Constituency voter turnout was at 58.59%, a little higher than 56.67% registered in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The key contenders at Mainpuri include Dimple Yadav from the Samajwadi Party, Jaiveer Singh from the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Shiv Prasad Yadav from the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Mainpuri Lok Sabha Constituency registered a voter turnout of 58.59%, higher than 56.67% turnout in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Voting for the seat concluded today (May 7) as part of the third phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Mainpuri Lok Sabha Constituency, one of the state’s 80 Lok Sabha seats, is a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party since 1996, when Mulayam Singh Yadav won the seat for the first time..
The constituency has five Assembly segments – Mainpuri, Bhongaon, Kishani(sc), Karhal, and Jaswantnagar.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won two of these seats in the 2022 assembly elections.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Mulayam Singh Yadav contested as a joint alliance candidate of SP, BSP, and RLD and won by a margin of 94,000 votes and vote share of 53.75%. Yadav also won the seat in 1996, 2004 and 2014.
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Following Mulayam Singh’s demise in 2022, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav nominated his wife Dimple Yadav as the candidate in the by-election.
Dimple registered a victory by a margin of 2.88 lakh votes.
Two years after being elected in a by-election, Dimple Yadav is again in the fray in Lok Sabha Election 2024.
Mainpuri voting date:
The Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat will go to polls in the third phase on May 7. Votes will be counted on June 4.
Mainpuri list of candidates:
The Mainpuri constituency will witness a three-way battle among the NDA and INDIA alliances and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). The upcoming elections will determine whether Dimple Yadav can maintain the SP’s stronghold in Mainpuri or if BJP’s Jaiveer Singh will pull off an unexpected victory.
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Candidate’s names |
Party |
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Dimple Yadav |
Samajwadi Party |
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Jaiveer Singh |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
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Shiv Prasad Yadav |
Bahujan Samaj Party |
2019 Lok Sabha Election results:
In the 2019 elections, Mulayam Singh Yadav won the Mainpuri seat by over 94,000 votes against BJP’s Prem Singh Shakya.
He had also won in 2014, defeating BJP’s Shatrughan Singh Chauhan.
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Candidate names |
Party |
Votes |
|
Mulayam Singh Yadav |
SP |
5,24,926 (53.75%) |
|
Prem Singh Shakya |
BJP |
4,30,537 (44.09%) |
|
NOTA |
NOTA |
6,711 (0.69%) |
|
Savendra Singh |
Independent |
2,631 (0.27%) |
|
Ombeer Lodhi |
JASSP |
2,580 (0.26%) |
|
Chakrapan |
JAAP |
1,812 (0.19%) |
|
Tej Pratap Singh Jatav |
MADP |
1,730 (0.18%) |
|
Kuldeep Kumar |
BKNP |
1,195 (0.12%) |
|
Hariram Shakya |
VPI |
1,121 (0.11%) |
|
Shyam Singh |
SWAJANPA |
1,053 (0.11%) |
|
Ravindra Singh Yadav |
Independent |
980 (0.10%) |
|
Rajat Kumar |
BJNP |
623 (0.06%) |
|
Ravindra Singh Katar |
BNAVP |
619 (0.06%) |
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