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Mukhtar Ansari, a former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India, has indeed faced election defeats on several occasions. In 2012, he lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, Surendra Singh, in the Mau constituency. He experienced another electoral setback in 2017 when he was defeated by the BJP's Ashok Singh. These instances demonstrate that Ansari has not always been successful in securing electoral victories.