Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Behat Assembly Seat
Uttar Pradesh Election: Behat Assembly Constituency 2022
Behat is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Saharanpur district. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 for Behat was held on February 14 and the result was declared on March 10.
Behat assembly constituency had 3,36,569 electors in 2017, out of which 1,79,920 were male voters and 1,56,649 females. The None of the Above (NOTA) option got 0.5% votes.
In 2017, 13 candidates were contesting for Behat assembly constituency seat. Behat was one of 7 seats won by the Indian National Congress. Indian National Congress's Naresh Saini won the election by defeating Bharatiya Janata Party's Mahaveer Singh Rana by a margin of 25,586 votes.
95.4% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. Indian National Congress's Naresh Saini grabbed a total of 97,035 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Mahaveer Singh Rana got 71,449 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Mohd. Iqbal bagged 71,019 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 38.7%, 28.5% and 28.3% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Bahujan Samaj Party's Mahaveer Singh Rana outperformed Indian National Congress's Naresh by 514 votes.