Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BAKSHI KAA TALAB

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: Bakshi Kaa Talab (GEN)

• Constituency No. 169
• District: Lucknow
• Population of the district: 3,588,455
• Overall Literacy: 79.33%
• Sex ratio: 906/1000

2012 Assembly election result

• Winner: Gomti Yadav (SP)
• Votes received: 79,629
• Nearest rival: Nakul Dubey (BSP)
• Votes: 77,730
• Difference: 1,899
• Margin: 1,899 (0.9%)
• Total voters: 3,22,901
• Turnout: 67.0%

Bakshi Kaa Talab comprises of 2-Bakshi Kaa Talab Tehsil; KC 2-Chinahat, PCs 1-Mutakkipur, 2-Alloo Nagar Diguria, 4-Ghaila, 6-Barawan Kalan, 11-Sikrohari of 1-Lucknow KC, Ward Nos. 5 & 20 in Lucknow (M Corp.) of
3-Lucknow Tehsil.

Lok Sabha constituency

• Bakshi Kaa Talab assembly seat falls under Mohanlalganj LS constituency.
• In 2014 LS poll, BJP's Kaushal Kishore defeated BSP's R. K. Choudhary from this seat.

Demography of Bakshi Kaa Talab

• Total population: 49,166
• Male: 25,657
• Female: 23,509
• Literacy rate: 73.83%