Hritika MitraNew DelhiPublished : Mar 10, 2022 13:19 IST Updated : Mar 10, 2022 23:58 IST
Jaunpur election result 2022 Live updates:Mohd. Arshad Khan from Samajwadi Party has won the Jaunpur Assembly constituency for the 2022 elections. The constituency saw the main battle between Samajwadi Party's Mohd. Arshad Khan and BJP's Girish Chandra Yadav.
Jaunpur constituency is considered to be a stronghold of the Indian National Congress. The INC has fielded Nadeem Javed whereas Salim is representing the Bahujan Samajwad Party this time.
In the 2017 Assembly election, Girish Chandra Yadav of BJP won the seat by defeating Congress's Nadeem Javed with a margin of 36,163 votes. In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Shyam Singh Yadav won from Jaunpur Lok Sabha (MP) Seat with the margin of 80936 votes by defeating Krishna Pratap Singh from Bharatiya Janata Party.
Polling on the Jaunpur assembly constituency was held on March 7, 2022.