Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BARAUT [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: BARAUT [Comprises PCs 1-Kheri Pradhan, 2-Kotana, 3-Luhari, 4-Loyan, 5-Malakpur, 6-Shahpur Badoli, 7-Sadiqpur Sinoli, 9-Badawad, 10-Sadatpur
Jonmana, 11-Bam, 12-Badaka, 13-Wazidpur, 14-Mahawatpur, 15-Jiwana, 16-Bawali, 19-Bijrol, 20-Johari, 21-Hilwari, 23-Jagos of 1-Baraut KC & Baraut MB of 1-Baraut Tehsil; PCs 5-Bali, 6-Meetli, 7-Niwara, 8-Sisana, 9-Gyasri Urf Gandhi, 10-Saroorpur Kalan, 11-Fatehpur Putthi, 12-Dhanaura Silvernagar, 13-Bichpari, 14-Budhera, 15-Naithla, 16-Sultanpur Hatana, 17-Faizpur Ninana, 18-Goripur Jawahar Nagar, 19-Sujara, 20-Tayodi & 21-Khera Islampur of 1-Baghpat KC of 2 Baghpat Tehsil]

Constituency No. 51

• District: Baghpat (Baraut is an Assembly segment under Baghpat Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 1,321 square kilometres
• District population: 13,03,048 (general caste 88.6%; SC 11.4%; ST 0%)
• District literacy: 61.2%
• District urbanisation: 21.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Baraut

• Winner: Lokesh Dixit (BSP)
• Votes received: 57,209
• Vote percentage: 39.12
• Nearest rival: Aswani Kumar (RLD)
  
• Votes: 51,533
• Percentage: 35.24
• Difference: 5,676
• Margin %:3.88
• Total voters: 2,51,139
• Turnout: 58.29
• Party which won Baraut most number of times: Congress twice; BSP once; SP and BJP never [1957-69; 2012]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Baghpat

Satyapal Singh (BJP) defeated Ghulam Mohammed (SP) by 2,09,866 votes (margin% 20.90)