Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BAH [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.

Oneindia will take one Assembly constituency a day and have a look at electoral information related to it:

Constituency Name: BAH [Comprises 1-Bah Tehsil]

Constituency No. 94

• District: Agra (Bah is an Assembly segment under Fatehpur Sikri Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 4,041 square kilometres
• District population: 44,18,797 (general caste 77.4%, SC 22.4%, ST 0.2%)
• District literacy: 60.7%
• District urbanisation: 45.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Bah

• Winner: Raja Mahendra Aridaman Sing [SP]
  
• Votes received: 99,379
• Vote percentage: 54.07
• Nearest rival: Madhusudan Sharma [BSP]
• Votes: 72,908
• Percentage: 39.67
• Difference: 26,471
  
• Margin %: 14.40%
• Total voters: 3,06,414
• Turnout: 59.99
• Party which won Bah most number of times: Congress won thrice; BJP twice and its predecessor once; BSP and SP once each [since 1952]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Fatehpur Sikri

Chaudhary Babulal (BJP) defeated Seema Upadhyay (BSP) by 1,73,106 votes (margin% 17.88)