Know Constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KALPI

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: KALPI

[3-Kalpi Tehsil; KCs 1-Kuthaund & 2-Hadrukh of 2-Jalaun Tehsil.]

Constituency Number: 220

• AC Name : Kalpi (220) (SC)
• Winner: Umakanti
• Winning Party: INC
• Winning Votes: 64,289
• Runner Up: Sanjay Singh
• Runner Up Party: BSP
• Runner Up Votes: 57,639
• Total Votes: 2,22,562
• Margin: 6,650
• Margin Percent: 2.99%
• Turnout: 62.76%
• Electors: 3,54,615
• Total Votes Polled: 2,22,562 (62.8%)
• Total Valid Votes: 2,22,419 (62.7%)

District: JALAUN

• Area Sq. Km: 4,565
• Actual Population: 1,689,974
• Men: 906,092
• Women: 783,882

About JALAUN

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Jalaun one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme.