Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Manish Kumar alias 'Mantu' defeated Samajwadi Party's Vikrama Yadav with a margin of 42,008 votes in the Padrauna constituency of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Mantu won with 1,14,496 votes, 49.8 percent of the total votes. Yadav garnered 72,488 votes.

Padrauna is an assembly constituency in the Kushinagar district, in the North East region of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Padrauna legislative assembly constituency went to polls on March 3, 2022.

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

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In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Padrauna was won by Swami Prasad Maurya of the BJP. He defeated BSP's Javed Iqbal. Before that, in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by BSP's Swami Prasad Maurya.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Swami Prasad Maurya garnered 93649 votes, securing 44.44 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 40552 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 19.24 percent.

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First Published:Mar 10, 2022 12:56 AM IST