Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: ETMADPUR [GEN]

| Published: Monday, July 11, 2016, 15:08 [IST]

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: ETMADPUR [Comprises 3-Etmadpur Tehsil; Ward Nos. 12, 17, 19, 28, 59, 61 & 73 in Agra
(M Corp.) of 4-Agra Tehsil. ]

Constituency No. 86

District: Agra (Etmadpur is an Assembly segment under Agra Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 4,041 square kilometres
District population: 44,18,797 (general caste 77.4%, Scheduled Caste 22.4%, Sceduled Tribe 0.2%)
District literacy: 60.7%
District urbanisation: 45.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Etmadpur

Winner: Dr Dharampal Singh [BSP]
Votes received: 79,982
Vote percentage: 33.9
Nearest rival: Dr Prem Singh Baghel [SP]
Votes: 71,478
Percentage: 30.29
Difference: 8,504
Margin %: 3.60
Total voters: 3,61,756
Turnout: 65.23
Party which won Etmadpur most number of times: Congress and BSP won twice; SP once; BJP never [since 1957, 1974-2012]