Know Constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BANDA.
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: BANDA
[KC 9-Banda & Banda (MB+OG) of 1-Banda Tehsil; KCs 3-Khurahand, 5-Bisanda, Bisanda NP of 3-Atarra Tehsil & KC 4-Girawan of 4-Naraini Tehsil. ]
Constituency Number: 235
2012 Assembly Election Result in BANDA
- Winner: Vivek Kumar Singh
- Winning Party: INC
- Winning Votes: 49,455
- Runner Up: Dinesh Chandra Shukla (Lala)
- Runner Up Party: BSP
- Runner Up Votes: 41,853
- Total Votes: 1,54,074
- Margin: 7,602
- Margin Percent: 4.93%
- Turnout: 54.81%
- Electors: 2,81,085
- Total Votes Polled: 1,54,074 (54.8%)
- Total Valid Votes: 1,53,547 (54.6%)
District: BANDA
- Total Area: 4084 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.