Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SAHASWAN

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 polls]

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Constituency Name: Sahaswan

• Constituency No. 113
• District: Badaun
• District Area: 84 sq km
• District population: 3,129,000
• District literacy: 52.91%

2012 Assembly election result in Sahaswan

• Winner: Omkar Singh Yadav (SP)
• Votes received: 72,946
• Vote percentage: 33.01%
• Nearest rival: Mir Hadi Ali Alias Babar Mian (BSP)
• Votes: 65,919
• Percentage: 29.83%
• Difference: 7,027
• Margin: 3.18%
• Total voters: 353,691
• Turnout: 220,996 (62.48%)

First election Sahaswan assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the delimitation order was passed in 1956.

Extant of Sahaswan Assembly constituency is KCs Madhyami, Sahaswan, Sailabi & Sahaswan MB of Sahaswan Tehsil; KC Ughaiti, Rudyan NP & Islamnagar NP of Bilsi Tehsil.

2014 Lok Sabha result in Badaun

Dharmendra Yadav (SP) defeated Vagish Pathak (BJP) by 166,347 votes and by a margin of 16.19%.