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Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BARHAPUR [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: Barhapur
[Comprises KCs Barhapur, Pureni, Barhapur NP of Nagina Tehsil; KCs Kadrabad, Afzalgarh & Afzalgarh M.B. of Dhampur Tehsil]
- Constituency No.19
- District: Bijnor (Nagina is an Assembly segment under Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency)
- District Area: 4,561 square kilometres
- District population: 36,82,713 (general caste 78.5%; SC 21.4%; ST 0.1%)
- District literacy: 58%
- District urbanisation: 25.1%
2012 Assembly election result in Barhapur
- Winner: Mohmd Ghazi (BSP)
- Votes received: 68,436
- Vote percentage: 33.83
- Nearest rival: Indra Dev Singh (BJP)
- Votes: 41,061
- Percentage:21.30
- Difference: 27,375
-
Margin
%:
13.53
- Total voters: 3,04,956
- Turnout: 66.35%
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Party
which
has
won
Barhapur
most
number
of
times:
The
Barhapur
constituency
came
into
existence
after
2008
delimitation.
The
BSP
has
won
it
once
(2012)
2014 Lok Sabha result in Moradabad
Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh (BJP) defeated Dr S T Hasan (SP) by 87.504 votes (margin% 7.7)
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