Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: AGRA NORTH [GEN]

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 NORTH [Comprises Dayalbagh NP, Swamibagh NP, Ward
Nos. 1, 5, 22, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 35, 42, 43, 45, 48, 51, 55, 62, 66, 70, 78 & 79 in Agra (M
Corp.) of 4-Agra Tehsil]

Constituency No. 89

• District: Agra (Agra North 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 North

• Winner: Jagan Prasad Garg [BJP]
• Votes received: 68,401
• Vote percentage: 34.77
• Nearest rival: Rajendra Kumar Agrawal [BSP]
• Votes: 45,045
• Percentage: 22.90
• Difference: 23,356
• Margin %: 3.07
• Total voters: 3,55,448
• Turnout: 11.87
• Party which won Agra North most number of times: Agra North constituency came into existence after the delimitation of 2008 [BJP won in 2012]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Agra

Dr Ram Shankar Katheria (BJP) defeated Narayan Singh Suman (BSP) by 3,00,263 votes (margin% 28.05)