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

Updated: Monday, July 11, 2016, 22:45 [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 RURAL [Comprises KCs 1-Bichpuri, 2-Akola, 3-Baroliahir, Azizpur (CT), Dhanauli (CT) & Nainana Jat (CT) of 4-Agra Tehsil]

Constituency No. 90

District: Agra (Agra Rural is an Assembly segment under Fatehpur Sikri 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 Rural

Winner: Kali Charan Suman [BSP]
Votes received: 69,969
Vote percentage: 34.84
Nearest rival: Hemlata [SP]
Votes: 51,123
Percentage: 25.46
Difference: 18,846
Margin %: 9.39
Total voters: 3,44,002
Turnout: 58.37
Party which won Agra Rural most number of times: Agra Rural constituency came into existence after the delimitation of 2008 [BSP won in 2012]