Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SHAHJAHANPUR
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: [Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls]
Constituency Name: Shahjahanpur
- Constituency No. 135
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District:
Shahjahanpur
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District
Area:
4,575
sq
km
- District population: 3,006,538
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District
literacy:
61.61%
(Male)
70.09%
(Female)
2012 Assembly election result in Shahjahanpur
- Winner: Suresh Kumar Khanna (BJP)
- Votes received: 81,581
- Vote percentage: 45%
- Nearest rival: Tanveer Khan (SP)
- Votes: 65,403
- Percentage: 36.08 %
- Difference: 16,178
- Margin: 8.92%
- Total voters: 308,540
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Turnout:
181,284
(58.76%)
First election in Shahjahanpur assembly constituency was held in 1952 after the "DPACO (1951)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1951.
Extant of Shahjahanpur Assembly constituency is KC Nagar, Shahjahanpur CB, Shahjahanpur (MB+OG) & Rly. Settlement Roza NP of Shahjahanpur Tehsil.
2014 Lok Sabha result in Shahjahanpur
Krishna
Raj
(BJP)
defeated
Umed
Singh
Kashyap
(BSP)
by
235,529
votes
and
by
a
margin
of
20.83%.
Tehsils
of
Shahjahanpur
district
are
Powayan,
Tilhar,
Jalalabad,
and
Sadar.
Shajahanpur Lok Sabha constituency comprises of 6 legislative assembly segments. These segments are: Dadraul, Jalalabad, Katra, Powayan, Shahjahanpur and Tilhar.