Know Constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: JAHANABAD

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: JAHANABAD

[KCs 1-Amauli, 3-Tappajar, 4-Paprenda, 5-Jahanabad, 6-Khajuha
& Kora Jahanabad NP of 3-Bindki Tehsil.]

Constituency Number: 238 (GEN)

2012 Assembly Election Result in JAHANABAD

Winner: Madan Gopal Verma
Winning Party: SP
Winning Votes: 78,920
Runner Up: Sameer Trivedi
Runner Up Party: BSP
Runner Up Votes: 42,709
Total Votes: 1,77,707
Margin: 36,211
Margin Percent: 20.38%
Turnout: 62.73%
Electors: 2,83,309
Total Votes Polled: 1,77,707
Total Valid Votes: 1,77,486

District: Fatehpur

Total area: 4,152 square kilometer
Total population: 26,32,733
Total SC: 6,51,480
Total ST: 340
Male literates: 9,11,003
Female literates: 6,01,163

About Fatehpur

District Fatehpur was setup on 1826 A.D. as a separate district, taking fertile land lying in between river Ganga and river Yamuna.Thus, this is among a few oldest districts in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Besides having a grand religious and historical background, this is motherland of Martyr Jodha Singh Ataiya, Martyr Dariyaw Singh and many other freedom fighters & renowned Hindi poet Rashtrakavi Sohan Lal Dwivedi .