Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: PURWA

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. [Know constituencies of UP Assembly pol]

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Constituency Name: Purwa (GEN)

• Constituency No. 167
• District: Unnao
• Population of the district: 3,110,595
• Overall Literacy: 68.29%
• Sex ratio: 901/1000 2012

Assembly election result

• Winner: Uday Raj (SP)
• Votes received: 85,073
• Nearest rival: Narendra Singh Lodhi (BSP)
• Votes: 57,172
• Difference: 27,901
• Margin: 27,901 (13.4%)
• Total voters: 3,47,602
• Turnout: 59.7 %

Purwa comprises of 4-Purwa Tehsil & KC 1- Bichhiya of 3-Unnao Tehsil.

Lok Sabha constituency

• Purwa assembly seat falls under Unnao LS constituency
• Unnao comprises of six assembly segments. These are Bangermau, Safipur (SC), Mohan (SC), Unnao, Bhagwant Nagar and Purwa.
• In 2014 LS poll, BJP's Dr. Sachchidanand Hari Sakshi defeated SP's Arun Shankar Shukla from this seat.

Past results of Purwa Assembly constituency

• In 2007, Uday Raj (SP) defeated Hirday Narayan Dixit (BJP) with 4,247 votes.
• In 2002, Udai Raj (SP) defeated Hriday Narayan Dikshit (BJP) with 9,917 votes.