Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MEERUT CANTT [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: MEERUT CANTONMENT [Comprises Meerut (CB) & Ward Nos. 1, 6 to 9, 18, 23, 26, 32, 37, 40, 44, 52, 59, 61, 63, 64, 66, 67 & 70 in Meerut (M Corp.) of Meerut Tehsil]

Constituency No. 47

• District: Meerut (Meerut Cantonment is an Assembly segment under Meerut Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 2,559 square kilometres
• District population: 20,08,7045 (general caste 81.8%; SC 18.01%; ST 0.1%)
• District literacy: 62.2%
• District urbanisation: 51.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Meerut Cantonment

• Winner: Satya Prakash Agarwal (BJP)
• Votes received: 70,820
• Vote percentage: 34.86
• Nearest rival: Sunil Kumar Wadhwa (BSP)
  
• Votes: 67,207
• Percentage: 33.08
• Difference: 3,613
• Margin %: 1.78
• Total voters: 3,46,745
• Turnout: 58.62
• Party which won Meerut Cantt most number of times: Congress won seven times; BJP six times; SP and BSP never [since 1957]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Meerut

Rajendra Agarwal (BJP) defeated Mohammad Shahid Akhlak (SP) by 2,32,326 votes (margin% 20.87)