Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BALDEV [SC]

Published: Monday, July 11, 2016, 10:24 [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.

Oneindia will take one Assembly constituency a day and have a look at electoral information related to it:

Constituency Name: BALDEV [SC] [Comprises KC 5-Raya & Raya NP of 2-Mant Tehsil; KCs 6-Farah, 7-Baldev,
8-Barauli, PCs 4-Ladpur, 11-Barari, 12-Jhandipur, 13-Garhaya Latifpur, 14-Shahpur Farah, 15-Mahuan, 16-Makhdoom of Bad KC, Mahaban NP, Baldev NP, Gokul NP & Farah NP of 3-Mathura Tehsil ]

Constituency No. 85

District: Mathura (Baldev is an Assembly segment under Mathura Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 3,340 square kilometres
District population: 25,47,184 (general caste 80%, Scheduled Caste 19.1%, Sceduled Tribe 0.1%)
District literacy: 59.2%
District urbanisation: 29.7%

2012 Assembly election result in Baldev

Winner: Pooran Prakash (RLD)
Votes received: 79,364
Vote percentage: 41.53
Nearest rival: Chandrabhan Singh (BJP)
Votes: 47,270
Percentage: 24.74
Difference: 32,094
Margin %: 16.80
Total voters: 3,17,126
Turnout: 60.43
Party which won Baldev most number of times: Baldev constituency came into existence after delimitation of 2008 [RLD won in 2012]