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.