From the Amethi assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh (UP), Samajwadi Party’s Maharaji Prajapati is leading with 30,249 votes.

He is followed by BJP's Dr Sanjay Sinh with 26,725 votes.

Amethi is an assembly constituency in the Amethi district in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh.

The Amethi legislative assembly constituency went to polls on February 27, 2022.

The assembly seat is reserved for the General category and falls in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.

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In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Amethi was won by Garima Singh of the BJP. He defeated SP's Gaytri Prasad.

Before that, in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh vidhan sabha elections, the seat was held by SP's Gayatri Prasad.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Garima Singh garnered 64,226 votes, securing 34.21 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 5,065 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 2.7 percent.

The total number of voters in the Amethi constituency stands at 3.35 lakh, with 1.77 lakh male voters and 1.57 lakh female voters.

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First Published:Mar 10, 2022 12:46 AM IST