Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SITAPUR

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: Sitapur

• Constituency No. - 146
• District: Sitapur
• District Area: 5,743 sq km
  
• District population: 4,474,446
• District literacy: 61%
  

2012 Assembly election result in Sitapur

• Winner: Radheyshyam Jaiswal (SP)
• Votes received: 58,370
• Vote percentage: 29.68%
• Nearest rival: Ayub Khan (BSP)
• Votes: 48,072
• Percentage: 24.44%
• Difference: 10,298
• Margin: 5.24%
• Total voters: 342,103
• Turnout: 196,683 (57.49%)
  

First election in Sitapur assembly constituency was held inin 1952 after the "DPACO (1951)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1951.

Extant of Sitapur Assembly constituency is PCs Neriklan, Tikawapara, Ramnagar, Khagesiamau, Sitapur, Akoiya, Raseora, Rahimabad, Sahsapur, Alam Nagar, Kanawakhera, Parsehara, Majlispur, Ramkoat, Jawahirpur of Sitapur (Sadar) KC, PCs Khairabad, Asodhar, Gangapur Ulfatrai, Pakaria, Suhetara, Bhemari, Husainpur Kaimhara, Makhuwapur, Sultanpur Kamaicha, Tappa Khajuria, Paharpur, Asharafpur, Dahelia Srirang, Akbarganj, Bhadiyasi, Bhagautipur of Khairabad KC, PCs Kachnar, Rampur Bhuda, Hempur of Aliya KC, Sitapur MB & Khairabad MB of Sitapur Tehsil (Sadar).

2014 Lok Sabha result in Sitapur

Rajesh Verma (BJP) defeated Kaiser Jahan (BSP) by 51,027 votes and by a margin of 4.97%.

Sitapur Lok Sabha constituency comprises of 5 legislative assembly segments-- Biswan, Laharpur, Mahmoodabad, Sevat and Sitapur.