Know Constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: Orai

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: ORAI (SC)

[4-Orai Tehsil; KC 3-Pirauna, PCs 63-Padari, 65-Anda 2nd, 66-Panyara, 67-Taharpura, 68-Kaithi, 69-Simiriya, 70-Dirawti, 74-Launa, 75-Pachipura Kalan, 78-Chhani, 79-Basti of 4-Konch KC of 5-Konch Tehsil; KC 3-Jalaun & Jalaun MB of 2-Jalaun Tehsil.]

Constituency Number: 221

• Winner: Dayashankar
• Winning Party: SP
• Winning Votes: 67,298
• Runner Up: Satyendra Pratap
• Runner Up Party: BSP
• Runner Up Votes: 60,165
• Total Votes: 2,37,444
• Margin: 7,133
• Margin Percent: 3.00%
• Turnout: 57.71%
• Electors: 4,11,457
• Total Votes Polled: 2,37,444 (57.7%)
• Total Valid Votes: 2,36,682 (57.5%)

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.