Know Constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BISHWAVNATHGANJ

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:

Constituency Name: BISHWAVNATHGANJ

[KCs 2-Mandhata 3-Bishwavnathganj, 4-Purab Gao of 3-Sadar
Tehsil & KC 5-Lilapur of 1-Lalganj Tehsil. ]

Constituency Number: 247 (GEN)

2012 Assembly Election Result in BISHWAVNATHGANJ

Winner: Raja Ram
Winning Party: SP
Winning Votes: 49,138
Runner Up: Sindhuja Mishra Senani
Runner Up Party: BSP
Runner Up Votes: 39,951
Total Votes: 1,81,651
Margin: 9,187
Margin Percent: 5.06%
Turnout: 51.88%
Electors: 3,50,109
Total Votes Polled: 1,81,651 (51.9%)
Total Valid Votes: 1,81,651 (51.9%)

District: PRATAPGARH

Area: 3,717 square kilometer
Total Population: 32,09,141
Total SC: 7,09,252
Total ST: 723
Total Literates: 19,31,559

About PRATAPGARH

Primarily, an agragrian district, for a while now, Pratapgarh has risen in ranks as the top producer of Aonla fruit. It is a multi-purpose fruit, is extremely rich in vitamin C, helps cure gastro-intestinal disorders, is said to encourage youth and liveliness and is exported all over india and possibly over world in form of sweets and medicines.

Pratapgarh on the Allahabad-Faizabad main road at a distance of 39 km from Sultanpur and 61 Km from Allahabad. It is one of the older districts of Uttar Pradesh, that came into existence in the year 1858. It is at a height of 137 Mt. from sea level.