Lucknow. Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Dimple Yadav defeated her nearest rival BJP candidate Jaiveer Singh from Mainpuri seat by a margin of 2,21,639 votes. According to the Election Commission, Dimple got 5,98,526 votes, while UP government’s Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh got 3,76,887 votes.
BSP candidate Shiv Prasad Yadav had to be content with 66,814 votes. SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav defeated BJP’s Prem Singh Shakya by a margin of 94,389 votes on this seat in 2019. After the death of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Dimple defeated BJP’s Raghuraj Shakya by a margin of 2.88 lakh votes in the 2022 by-election. This seat has been with the SP since 1996.