Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: ALIGARH [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.

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Constituency Name: ALIGARH [Comprises Ward Nos. 1 to 6, 8 to 21, 23 to
27, 29, 35, 37, 38, 39, 45, 46, 50, 54, 55, 56 & 58 to 60 in Aligarh (M Corp.) of 4-Koil Tehsil]

Constituency No.76

• District: Aligarh (Aligarh is an Assembly segment under Aligarh Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 3,700 square kilometres
• District population: 36,73,849
• District literacy: 69.61%

2012 Assembly election result in Aligarh

• Winner: Zafar Alam (SP)
• Votes received: 68,291
• Vote percentage: 36.95
• Nearest rival: Ashutosh Varshney (BJP)
  
• Votes: 45,205
• Percentage:24.46
• Difference:23,086
• Margin %:12.49
• Total voters: 2,94,190
• Turnout: 62.83
• Party which won Aligarh most number of times: Congress won four times; BJP three times while BJS won twice; SP won thrice; BSP never [since 1952]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Aligarh

Satish Kumar Gautam (BJP) defeated Arvind Kumar Singh (BSP) by 2,86,736 votes (margin% 26.94)