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%.