Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SHAMLI (GEN)
Uttar Pradesh will go to Assembly elections early in 2017. The state has an Assembly comprising 403 seats and a party/alliance has to win 202 seats to form the government.
In 2012, when the last state election was held in UP, the Samajwadi Party had won 224 seats to get a decisive majority.
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Constituency Name: Shamli
[KC
1-Lisadh,
PC
18-Shamli,
21-Banat
of
2-Shamli
KC,
4-Ailum
NP,
5-Shamli
NPP
&
6-Banat
NP
of
2-Shamli
Tehsil;
PCs
13-
Kandrawali,
14-Aaldi,
17-19
Kandhala
(E)(N)(S),
20-Gangeru
(E),
21-Gangeru
(W),
22-Gangeru
(N)
of
3-Kairana
KC
&
Kandhala
NPP
of
1-Kairana
Tehsil;
PCs
18-Nala,
19-Taharpur
Bhabisa,
20-Kaniyan,
21-Salfa
&
22-Sunna
of
Budhana
KC
of
Budhana
Tehsil.
]
Constituency
No.
10
District:
Shamli
(Kairana
is
an
Assembly
segment
under
Kairana
Lok
Sabha
constituency)
District
Area:
1,063
square
kilometres
District
population:
12,74,815
District
literacy:
60%
2012 Assembly election result in Shamli
-
Winner:
Pankaj
Kumar
Malik
(Congress)
-
Votes
received:
53,947
-
Vote
percentage:
32.05
-
Nearest
rival:
Virendra
Singh
(Samajwadi
Party)
-
Votes:
50,206
-
Percentage:
29.83
-
Difference:
3,741
-
Margin
%:
2.22
-
Total
voters:
2,76,329
-
Turnout:
60.91%
-
Party
which
has
won
Shamli
most
number
of
times:
This
constituency
came
into
existance
after
the
2008
delimitation.
The
Congress
has
won
it
once.
2014 Lok Sabha result in Kairana
Hukum Singh (BJP) defeated Nahid Hasan (SP) by 2,36,828 votes (margin% - 21.05)
About Shamli district: The district of Shamli was carved out of Muzaffarnagar district in September 2011 and given the name in July next year. Major industries in this district include retail and agriculture.
The standard of living in Shamli is high because of the rich farmland of the Doab region between the Ganges and the Yamuna, the sugar mills and the proximity and easy access to Delhi and other important industrial towns. Shamli is also famous for its steel, paper and wheel rim industry.