Know Constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BABERU (GEN)

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: BABERU (GEN)

[2-Baberu Tehsil]

Constituency Number: 233

2012 Assembly Election Result in BABERU

• Winner: Vishambhar Singh
• Winning Party: SP
• Winning Votes: 41,642
• Runner Up: Brij Mohan Singh
• Runner Up Party: BSP
• Runner Up Votes: 40,494
• Total Votes: 1,71,801
• Margin: 1,148
• Margin Percent: 0.67%
• Turnout: 56.15%
• Electors: 3,05,982
• Total Votes Polled: 1,71,801 (56.2%)
• Total Valid Votes: 1,71,486 (56.0%)

District: BANDA

Total Area: 4,408 square kilometer
Actual Population: 1,799,410
Male: 965,876
Female: 833,534
Total SC population: 3,87,855
Total ST population: 163
Male Literacy: 6,30,626
Female Literacy: 3,72,311

About BANDA

Banda is famous for its Shajar stone, used for making jewellery, and the historically and architecturally significant sites Khajuraho and Kalinjar. Khajuraho is a World Heritage Site famous for its elaborately carved temples. The fortress of Kalinjar is famed for its war history and its glorious rock sculptures.