Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: ALIGANJ

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. [Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls]

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Constituency Name: Aliganj

• Constituency No. 103
• District: Etah
• District Area: 4,446 sq km
• District population: 107,110
• District literacy: 68%

2012 Assembly election result in Aliganj

• Winner: Rameshwar Singh Yadav (SP)
• Votes received: 91,141
• Vote percentage: 45.63
• Nearest rival: Sanghmitra Maurya (BSP)
• Votes: 65,120
• Percentage: 32.6
• Difference: 26,021
• Margin: 26,021
• Total voters: 2,99,641
• Turnout: 66.5%

First election in Aliganj assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the delimitation order was passed in 1956.

2014 Lok Sabha result in Etah

Rajveer Singh (BJP) defeated Devendra Singh Yadav (SP) by 51,650 votes by a margin of 29.27%.