Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SHIKOHABAD [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.
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Constituency
Name:
SHIKOHABAD
[Comprises
KCs
3-Firozabad
&
4-Matsaina
of
2-Firozabad
Tehsil;
PCs
1-Makkhanpur,
2-Mohanipur,
3-Mohammadpur
Labbhoua,
4-
Dakhinara,
5-Aasdevmai
Nurpur,
6-Dikhtoli,
7-Shikohabad,
8-Aronj,
9-Nawali,
10-Sadhupur,
11-Mohammadpur
Ahir,
12-Armrajat,
13-Rasulpur,
14-Harganpur,
15-Hariya,
16-Abbaspur,
20-Amri
of
1-Shikohabad
KC
&
MB
Shikohabad
of
4-Shikohabad
Tehsil]
Constituency No. 98
- District: Firozabad (Shikohabad is an Assembly segment under Firozabad Lok Sabha constituency)
- District Area: 2,407 square kilometres
- District population: 24,98,156 (general caste 80.9%, SC 19%, ST 0.1%)
- District literacy: 60.9%
- District urbanisation: 33.4%
2012 Assembly election result in Shikohabad
- Winner: Om Prakash Verma [SP]
- Votes received: 98,682
-
Vote
percentage:
51.96
-
Nearest
rival:
Dr
Mukesh
Verma
[BSP]
- Votes:54,688
- Percentage: 28.8
- Difference: 43,994
- Margin %: 23.17
- Total voters: 3,06,325
- Turnout:62.30
- Party which won Shikohabad most number of times: Congress and SP thrice each; BJP once; BSP never [since 1952]
2014 Lok Sabha result in Firozabad
Akshay Yadav (SP) defeated Prof SP Singh Baghel (BJP) by 1,14,059 votes (margin% 10.32)