Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: ATRAULI [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: ATRAULI [Comprises KCs 1-Atrauli, 3-Dadon, 4-Bijoli, PCs 18-Gaonkhera, 19-Ganiyawali, 20-Jujharka, 21-Gobli, 22-Chendauli Buzurg, 23-
Bhavigarh, 24-Koreh Raghupura, 25-Fazalpur, 26-Rehmapur, 27-Gajipur, 28-Tebthu, 31-Madapur, 32-Utara, 33-Puraini Ismailpur of 2-Barala KC & Atrauli MB of 3-Atrauli Tehsil]

Constituency No. 73

• District: Aligarh (Atrauli 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 Atrauli

• Winner: Viresh Yadav (SP)
  
• Votes received: 54,785
• Vote percentage: 26.63
• Nearest rival: Prem Lata Devi (JaKP)
  
• Votes: 45,918
• Percentage: 22.32
• Difference: 8,867
• Margin %: 4.31
• Total voters: 3,27,391
• Turnout: 62.91
• Party which won Atrauli most number of times: BJP won six times while its predessor BJS won thrice; Congress won thrice; SP once; 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)