Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Sunil Kumar Sharma defeated Samajwadi Party's (SP) Amarpal Sharma with a margin of 2,14,835 votes in the Sahibabad constituency of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Retaining his seat for the second term, Sunil Kumar received a majority of 3,22,882 votes, 67.03 percent of the total votes. Amarpal garnered 1,08,047 votes.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Indian National Congress lost with 24,136 and 10,273 votes respectively.

Sahibabad is an assembly constituency in the Ghaziabad district, in the West region of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Sahibabad legislative assembly constituency went to polls on February 10, 2022.

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

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In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Sahibabad was won by Sunil Kumar Sharma of the BJP.

He defeated INC's Amarpal.

Before that, in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh vidhan sabha elections, the seat was held by BSP's Amarpal.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Sunil Kumar Sharma garnered 262741 votes, securing 61.7 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 150685 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 35.38 percent.

In 2017, there were 342965 voters, of which 185395 were male and 157536 were female and 34 voters of the third gender.

It is a Semi-Urban constituency with an approximate literacy rate of 78.07 percent.

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First Published:Mar 10, 2022 12:35 AM IST