Amethi Election Result: Congress' poor show continues in its stronghold, SP bags seat
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UP election result 2022: Congress's candidate Ashish Shukla received just 14,080 votes, around 7.42 % of the total votes polled.
New Delhi: Congress' poor show in Amethi, which was considered its strongholds not long ago, continued as it failed to retain the seat again. In the Amethi Assembly constituency, the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged the seat while Congress stood at the third position, as the counting of votes concluded on Thursday (March 10, 2022).
Congress's candidate Ashish Shukla could only get 14,080 votes, around 7.42 % of the total votes polled.
SP's Maharaji Prajapati won the seat and received 88,217 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Sanjay Sinh was the runner-up with 70,121 votes.
The grand old party also lost in the other three Assembly constituencies of the Amethi district namely Gauriganj, Jagdishpur and Tiloi.
In Gauriganj, Samajwadi Party's Rakesh Pratap Singh took the seat with 79,040 votes and defeated BJP's Chandra Prakash Mishra Matiyari, who received 72,077 votes. Congress' Fateh Bahadur came third with 28,964 votes.
