Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: ALIGARH [GEN]

Updated: Sunday, July 10, 2016, 19:36 [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.

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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]