Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MUZAFFAR NAGAR [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: Muzaffar Nagar
[Comprises PCs 5-Bilaspur, 11-Jatmunjhera, 12-Makhiyali, 13-Shernagar, 16-Dhandhera, 17-Bhandoora of 2-Kukra KC & 7-Muzaffarnagar NPP of 3-Muzaffarnagar Tehsil]
- Constituency No. 14
- District: Muzaffarnagar (Muzaffar Nagar is an Assembly segment under Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency)
- District Area: 2,945 square kilometres
- District population: 28,27,154 (general caste 86.5%; SC 13.5%; ST 0%)
- District literacy: 58.33%
- District urbanisation: 28.8%
2012 Assembly election result in Muzaffar Nagar
Winner:
Chitranjan
Swaroop
(SP)
Votes
received:
59,169
Vote
percentage:
34.96
Nearest
rival:
Ashok
Kansal
(BJP)
Votes:44,167
Percentage:
26.09
Difference:
15,002
Margin
%:
8.86
Total
voters:
3,01,726
Turnout:
56.11%
Party which has won Muzaffar Nagar most number of times: Congress and BJP thrice each; SP won it twice; BSP won never [since 1952]
2014 Lok Sabha result in Muzaffarnagar
Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan (BJP) defeated Kadir Rana (BSP) by 4,01,150 votes (margin% 36.21)