Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BADAUN
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: Badaun
- Constituency No. 115
- District: Badaun
- District Area: 84 sq km
- District population: 3,129,000
- District literacy: 52.91%
2012 Assembly election result in Badaun
- Winner: Abid Raza Khan (SP)
- Votes received: 62,786
- Vote percentage: 32.44%
- Nearest rival: Mahesh Chandra Gupta (BJP)
- Votes: 47,373
- Percentage: 24.47%
- Difference: 15,413
- Margin: 7.97%
- Total voters: 313,196
- Turnout: 193,566 (61.8%)
First election Badaun assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the delimitation order was passed in 1956.
Extant of Badaun Assembly constituency is KCs Binawar, Kunwargaon, Budaun MB & Kunwargaon NP of Budaun Tehsil; PCs Wazirganj, Lahra Ladpur, Sursena, Kaser Panauta, Bankota, Kallia Kazampur, Rota, Karkatpur, Gotha of 4-Satsai KC & Wazirganj NP of Bisauli Tehsil.
2014 Lok Sabha result in Badaun
Dharmendra Yadav (SP) defeated Vagish Pathak (BJP) by 166,347 votes and by a margin of 16.19%.