Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party's (SBSP) Om Prakash Rajbhar defeats Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Kalicharan with 45632 votes.

Zahoorabad is an assembly constituency in the Ghazipur district, in the East region of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Zahoorabad legislative assembly constituency went to polls on March 7, 2022.

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

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In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Zahoorabad was won by Om Prakash Rajbhar of the SBSP.

He defeated BSP's Kalicharan.

Before that, in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh vidhan sabha elections, the seat was held by SP's Syeda Shadab Fatima.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Om Prakash Rajbhar garnered 86,583 votes, securing 37.56 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 18081 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 7.84 percent.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, there were a total of 3,52,778 eligible electors in the Assembly segment, of which 1,93,831 were male and 1,58,941 female and 6 registered voters were of the third gender.

The Zahoorabad constituency has a literacy level of 71.78 percent.

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First Published:Mar 10, 2022 12:58 AM IST