Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MATHURA [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: MATHURA [Comprises PCs 3-Jaisinghpura, 4-Ganesara, 6-Naugaon, 13-Maholi, 14- Narholi, 15-Mathura Bangar, 16-Aurangabad, 17-Dhangaon, 18-Aduki of 4-Mathura KC, PCs 15-Sakraya Bangar, 16-Vrindaban of 2-Vrindaban KC, Vrindaban MB, Mathura MB & Mathura (CB) of 3-Mathura Tehsil. ]
Constituency No. 84
- District: Mathura (Mathura is an Assembly segment under Mathura Lok Sabha constituency)
- District Area: 3,340 square kilometres
- District population: 25,47,184 (general caste 80%, Scheduled Caste 19.1%, Sceduled Tribe 0.1%)
- District literacy: 59.2%
- District urbanisation: 29.7%
2012 Assembly election result in Mathura
- Winner: Pradeep Mathur (Congress)
- Votes received: 54,498
- Vote percentage: 27.16
- Nearest rival: Devendra Kumar Sharma (BJP)
- Votes: 53,997
- Percentage: 26.91
- Difference: 501
- Margin %: 0.25
- Total voters: 3,58,237
- Turnout: 56.30
- Party which won Mathura most number of times: Congress won nine times; BJP four times; SP and BSP [since 1957]
2014 Lok Sabha result in Mathura
Hema Malini (BJP) defeated Jayant Chaudhary (RLD) by 3,30,743 votes (margin% 31.67)