Samajwadi Party's Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan won from Uttar Pradesh’s Suar constituency with a total of 1,26,162 votes. Son of SP leader Azam Khan, Abdullah is out on bail after spending 23 months in jail. He had won the 2017 assembly elections in UP from the same seat but his victory was declared null and void by the Allahabad high court.

Haidar Ali Khan of Apna Dal (Soneylal) was in the second spot with 65,059 votes, meaning Azam Khan won by a margin of 61,103 votes.

Suar is an assembly constituency in the Rampur district, in the Ruhelkhand region of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Suar legislative assembly constituency went to polls on February 14, 2022. The assembly seat is reserved for the General category and it falls in the Rampur Lok Sabha constituency.

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In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Suar was won by Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan of the SP. He defeated BJP's Laxmi Saini. Before that, in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh vidhan sabha elections, the seat was held by INC's Nawab Kazim Ali Khan Urf Naved Mian.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan garnered 106443 votes, securing 51.68 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 53096 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 25.78 percent.

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First Published:Mar 10, 2022 12:31 AM IST