Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: AGRA CANTT [SC]

Updated: Monday, July 11, 2016, 16:27 [IST]

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: AGRA CANTT [SC] [Comprises Agra CB & Ward Nos. 2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 24, 34, 40, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 54, 60, 65 & 68 in Agra (M Corp.) of 4-Agra Tehsil]

Constituency No. 87

District: Agra (Agra Cantonment is an Assembly segment under Agra Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 4,041 square kilometres
District population: 44,18,797 (general caste 77.4%, Scheduled Caste 22.4%, Sceduled Tribe 0.2%)
District literacy: 60.7%
District urbanisation: 45.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Agra Cantt

Winner: Gutiyari Lal Duwesh [BSP]
Votes received: 67,786
Vote percentage: 32.46
Nearest rival: Giriraj Singh Dharmesh [BJP]
Votes: 61,371
Percentage: 29.40
Difference: 6,415
Margin %: 3.07
Total voters: 3,83,405
Turnout: 54.45
Party which won Agra Cantt most number of times: Congress won six times; BJP four times; BSP thrice; SP never [since 1967]