Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BILSI

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: Bilsi

• Constituency No. 114
• District: Badaun
• District Area: 84 sq km
• District population: 3,129,000
• District literacy: 52.91%

2012 Assembly election result in Bilsi

• Winner: Musarrat Ali Bittan (BSP)
• Votes received: 57,600
• Vote percentage: 32.43%
• Nearest rival: Vimal Krishan Aggrawal (SP)
• Votes: 49,272
• Percentage: 27.74%
• Difference: 8,328
• Margin: 4.69%
• Total voters: 293,359
• Turnout: 177,622 (60.55%)

First election Bilsi assembly constituency was held in 1974 after the delimitation order was passed in 1967.

Extant of Bilsi Assembly constituency is KC Kaulhai of Sahaswan Tehsil; KC Ujhani, Ujhani MB & Kachhla NP of Budaun Tehsil; KC Bilsi & Bilsi MB of Bilsi Tehsil.

2014 Lok Sabha result in Badaun

Dharmendra Yadav (SP) defeated Vagish Pathak (BJP) by 166,347 votes and by a margin of 16.19%.