Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BHOJIPURA

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: Bhojipura

• Constituency No. 120
• District: Bareilly
  
• District Area: 4,120 sq km
  
• District population: 4,448,359
  
• District literacy: 60.52%

2012 Assembly election result in Bhojipura

• Winner: Shazil Islam Ansari [Ittehad-e-Millat Council]
• Votes received: 65,531
• Vote percentage: 32.55%
• Nearest rival: Virendra Singh Gangwar (SP)
• Votes: 47,583
• Percentage: 23.63%
• Difference: 17,948
• Margin: 8.92%
• Total voters: 289,427
• Turnout: 201,327 (69.56%)

First election in Bhojipura constituency was held in 1957 after the delimitation order was passed in 1956.

Extant of Bhojipura Assembly constituency is KC Shergarh, Devraniya NP & Shergarh NP of Baheri Tehsil; KCs Bhojipura, Rithora, CB Ganj, Rithora NP, Dhaura Tanda NP & Pipalsana Chaudhdhari (CT) of Bareilly Tehsil.

2014 Lok Sabha result in Bareilly

Santosh Kumar Gangwar (BJP) defeated Ayesha Islam (SP) by 240,685 votes and by a margin of 23.8%.

Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency comprises of 5 legislative assembly segments-- Bareilly, Bareilly Cantt, Bhojipura, Meerganj and Nawabganj.