Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: AGRA SOUTH [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 SOUTH [Comprises Ward Nos. 4, 8 to 11, 15, 18, 23, 25, 29, 30, 36 to 39, 41, 44, 49, 56, 57, 58, 63, 64, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74 to 77 & 80 in Agra (M Corp.) of 4-Agra Tehsil

Constituency No. 88

• District: Agra (Agra South 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 South

• Winner: Yogendra Upadhyaya [BJP]
• Votes received: 74,324
• Vote percentage: 37.77
• Nearest rival: Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutto [BSP]
• Votes: 51,364
• Percentage: 26.10
• Difference: 22,960
• Margin %: 3.07
• Total voters: 3,28,782
• Turnout: 11.67
• Party which won Agra South most number of times: Agra South constituency came into existence after the delimitation of 2008 [BJP won in 2012]