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 .