Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: BISALPUR
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: [Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls]
Constituency Name: Bisalpur
- Constituency No. 130
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District:
Pilibhit
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District
Area:
3,504
sq
km
- District population: 2.037 million
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District
literacy:
63.58%
2012 Assembly election result in Bisalpur
- Winner: Agys Ramsaran Verma (BJP)
- Votes received: 111,735
- Vote percentage: 49.71%
- Nearest rival: Anis Ahmad Khan (Congress)
- Votes: 55,664
- Percentage: 24.76%
- Difference: 56,071
- Margin: 24.95%
- Total voters: 315,152
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Turnout:
224,795
(71.33%)
First election in Bisalpur assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1956.
Extant of Bisalpur Assembly constituency is KCs Deoria Kalan, Bisalpur, Bilsanda, Amrata, Bisalpur NPP & Bilsanda NP of Bisalpur Tehsil.
2014 Lok Sabha result in Pilibhit
Maneka Gandhi (BJP) defeated Budhsen Verma (SP) by 307,052 votes and by a margin of 29.23%.
About Pilibhit district
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Pilibhit
Lok
Sabha
constituency
is
one
of
the
80
Lok
Sabha
constituencies
in
Uttar
Pradesh
and
is
a
part
of
Bareilly
division
and
Rohilkhand
region.
- It comprises of 5 legislative assembly segments-- Baheri, Barkhera, Bisalpur, Pilibhit and Puranpur.
- Pilibhit parliamentary constituency has been the stronghold of Maneka Gandhi since 1996, when she was in Janata Dal. In 1998 and in 1999, she sucessfully contested as an independent candidate.
- In 2004, Maneka Gandhi formally joined the BJP and consistently won from Pilibhit. In 2009, her son Varun Gandhi won from this contituency and she again won it in 2014 general elections.
- 95% of India's flutes are manufactured in Pilibhit, that is why is also called 'Bansuri Nagar'. It is also home to Sikh and Bengali people.