Saharanpur Election Result 2022: Samajwadi Party's Ashu Malik wins
Saharanpur election result 2022: Samajwadi Party's candidate Ashu Malik on Thursday won elections in Saharanpur by defeating his nearest rival Jagpal Singh of BJP. He has secured 1,07,007 votes while Jagpal pocketed 76,262 votes. BSP candidate Ajab Singh finished third with 62,637 votes.
Congress' Sandeep Kumar and AIMIM's Margoob Hasan got 1,217 and 8,187 votes. AAP's Yogesh Dahiya settled with just 476 votes.
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Saharanpur Assembly seat came into existence in 1955. Both the BJP and Congress won from here thrice since 1977 while the SP and BSP represented the seat one time each.
In 2017, 13 candidates were in the fray from Saharanpur seat. It was one of 7 seats that Congress won. Congress's Masood Akhtar had won from here, defeating BSP’s Jagpal Singh by a margin of 12,324 votes. BJP’s Manoj Chaudhary came a distant third. In 2012, Jagpal had won from here, beating Congress' Abdul Wahid.
The seat went to the polls in the second phase on February 14, 2022.
