Muzaffarnagar election result 2022: Kapil Dev Agarwal, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Minister in outgoing Yogi Adityanath government , has retianed the Muzaffarnagar Assembly seat. He won by a margin of 18,694 votes.
Muzaffarnagar was one of the most keenly watched seats in the state where the SP and RLD had fielded a joint candidate Saurabh Swaroop Bansal against Kapil Dev. Kapil Dev, a sitting MLA, secured 1,11,794 votes while Saurabh pocketed 93,100 votes.
Kapil Dev had won the seat in 2015 when byelection was held and retained the seat in 2017. He defeated SP's Gaurav Swarup Bansal on both occasions.
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The BJP has been enlisting the support of Jats since 2014. The 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots had driven a deep wedge between the Jats and Muslims in the region and the BJP benefitted the most due to communal polarisation.
Muzaffarnagar went to polls in the first phase on February 10.
