Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SIDHAULI

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: Sidhauli (SC category)

• Constituency No. 152
• District: Sitapur
• Population: 569,117
• Literacy: 53.63%

2012 Assembly election result

• Winner: Manish Rawat (SP)
• Votes received: 73,714
• Vote percentage: 36.6
• Nearest rival: Dr. Hargovind Bhargav (BSP)
• Votes : 67,083
• Percentage: 33.4%
• Difference: 6,631
• Margin: 6,631 (3.3%)
• Total voters: 3,01,879
• Turnout: 66.6

Past records of the constituency

• In 2007, Dr. Hargovind Bhargava (BSP) defeated his rival Syam Lal Rawat ( SP) with 11,994 votes.
• In 2002, Shyam Lal Rawat (SP) defeated his rival Ramesh Rahi( BSP) with 436 votes.

Lok Sabha constituency

• Sidhauli assembly seat falls under Mohanlalganj LS constituency.
• In 2014 LS poll, BJP's Kaushal Kishore defeated BSP's R. K. Choudhary from this seat.