Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BILASPUR [GEN]

Updated: Friday, July 1, 2016, 22:24 [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: BILASPUR [Comprises 2-Bilaspur Tehsil; KC 1-Sihari, PCs 18-Nagla Udai, 25-Shyampur, 26-Khata Kalan, 27-Dhanaili Uttri, 28-Pashupura of 2-Milak KC of 5-Milak Tehsil]

Constituency No. 36

District: Rampur (Bilaspur is an Assembly segment under Rampur Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 2,265 square kilometres
District population: 23,35,819 (general caste 86.8%; SC 13.2%; ST 0%)
District literacy: 44.7%
District urbanisation: 25.2%

2012 Assembly election result in Bilaspur

Winner: Sanjay Kapoor (Congress)
Votes received: 52,818
Vote percentage: 27.2%
Nearest rival: Beena Bhardwaj (SP)
Votes: 42,641
Percentage: 21.96%
Difference: 10,177
Margin %: 5.24
Total voters: 2,95,959
Turnout: 65.63%
Party which has won Bilaspur most number of times: Congress has won fives times; SP twice; BJP once; BSP never [since 1967]