Malihabad Assembly Election 2022: Will BJP Retain It Or Will SP Regain Its Previous Stronghold?

In 2017, Jai Devi of BJP won the seat by defeating Rajbala from SP with a margin of 22,668 votes.

Malihabad Election 2022: Malihabad is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Malihabad in Lucknow district. Malihabad is one of the five assembly constituencies in the Mohanlalganj (Lok Sabha constituency). It is also the seat of a tehsil and a community development block of the same name. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 168 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Jai Devi who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Rajbala by a margin of 22,668 votes. Prior to that, SP held Malihabad seat for four terms only losing it in 2002 elections to an Independent candidate.

Malihabad will go to polls in the fourth phase of UP Polls on 23rd February. BJP has fielded its sitting MLA Jai Devi once again, while SP has declared Smt. Sushila from this seat.

Malihabad Assembly Election 2022: Key Candidates

• Jaya Devi – BJP
• Sushila – SP

Malihabad Constituency Watch

• Date of Polling: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
• Date of Counting: Thursday, 10 March 2022

Malihabad Assembly Election Results 2017

Important updates for UP Elections 2022

The elections for the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly will take place in seven phases from February 10 to March 7. The major political parties in the fray are the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Indian National Congress, and debutant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The counting of votes will be done on March 10 and results will be declared the same day.