Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: NEHTAUR [SC]

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.

-------->Next seat: BIJNOR [22]

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Constituency Name: Nehtaur

[Comprises KC Haldaur & Haldaur MB of Bijnor Tehsil; KC Nehtaur, PCs Athai Shekh, Basera Dasu, Basera Khurd, Bhawanipur Tarkola, Mankua, Dhakka Karmachand, Kotra Tappa Kesho, Pipalsana, Raipur Maluk, Sedha, Sherpur Balla, Tapraula of Dhampur KC & Nehtaur MB of Dhampur Tehsil]

• Constituency No. 21
• District: Bijnor (Nehtaur is an Assembly segment under Nagina Lok Sabha constituency)
  
• District Area: 4,561 square kilometres
• District population: 36,82,713 (general caste 78.5%; SC 21.4%; ST 0.1%)
• District literacy: 58%
• District urbanisation: 25.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Nehtaur

• Winner: Om Kumar (BSP)
  
• Votes received: 51,389
  
• Vote percentage: 31.26
  
• Nearest rival: Raj Kumar (SP)
  
• Votes: 31,991
  
• Percentage: 19.46
  
• Difference: 19,398
  
• Margin %: 11.80
  
• Total voters: 2,57,285
  
• Turnout: 63.89%
  
• Party which has won Nehtaur most number of times: Nehtaur constituency came into existence in 2008 [BSP won in 2012]
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Nagina

Yaswant Singh (BJP) defeated Yashvir Singh (SP) by 92,390 votes (margin% 9.8)