Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MORADABAD NAGAR [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:
MORADABAD
NAGAR
[Comprises
Ward
Nos.
2,
4,
5,
6,
8,
10
to
16,
19,
20,
22,
23,25,
26,
27,
29,
30,
31,
33,
34,
36,
37,38,
43,
44,
46,
49,
50,
56,
59
&
60
in
Moradabad
(M
Corp.),
of
2-Moradabad
Teshil]
- Constituency No. 28
- District: Moradabad (Moradabad Nagar is an Assembly segment under Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency)
- District Area: 3,718 square kilometres
- District population: 47,72,006 (general caste 84.7%; SC 15.3%; ST 0%)
- District literacy: 47.4%
- District urbanisation: 33%
2012
Assembly
election
result
in
Moradabad
Nagar
-
Winner:
Mohammad
Yusuf
Ansari
(SP)
- Votes received: 88.341
- Vote percentage: 42.2%
- Nearest rival: Ritesh Kumar Gupta (BJP)
- Votes: 68,103
- Percentage:32.5%
- Difference: 20,238
- Margin %: 9.66
- Total voters: 3,88,966
- Turnout: 53.85%
-
Party
which
has
won
Moradabad
Nagar
most
number
of
times:
Congress
and
BJP
four
times
each;
SP
thrice;
BSP
never
[since
1952]
2014
Lok
Sabha
result
in
Moradabad
Kunwar
Sarvesh
Kumar
Singh
(BJP)
defeated
Dr
S
T
Hasan
(SP)
by
87.504
votes
(margin%
7.7)