Know Constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KUNDA
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: KUNDA
[KCs
2-Manikpur,
3-Kunda,
6-Bihar,
Manikpur
NP
&
Kunda
NP
of
2-Kunda
Tehsil.]
Constituency Number: 246 (GEN)
2012 Assembly Election Result in KUNDA
Winner:
Raghuraj
Pratap
Singh
Winning
Party:
IND
Winning
Votes:
1,11,392
Runner
Up:
Shiv
Prakash
Mishra
Senani
Runner
Up
Party:
BSP
Runner
Up
Votes:
23,137
Total
Votes:
1,63,912
Margin:
88,255
Margin
Percent:
53.84%
Turnout:
51.96%
Electors:
3,15,457
Total
Votes
Polled:
1,63,912
(52.0%)
Total
Valid
Votes:
1,63,911
(52.0%)
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.