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SP's Dimple Yadav Wins Mainpuri Bypoll By Over 2.8 lakh Votes
Considered as the SP's bastion, the seat was vacated after Mulayam Singh Yadav's death.
09 Dec 2022, 01:50 AM IST 
Dimple Yadav. (Photo: Samajwadi Party Twitter)
Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav on Thursday won the Mainpuri parliamentary bypoll in Uttar Pradesh, defeating her nearest rival and BJP candidate Raghuraj Singh Shakya by 2,88,461 votes.
Considered as the SP's bastion, the seat was held by party founder and Dimple Yadav's father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav and got vacated after his death on Oct. 10.
In 2019, Mulayam Singh Yadav won the Mainpuri seat by defeating BJP candidate Prem Singh Shakya by 94,389 votes.