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

| Updated: Sunday, July 10, 2016, 14:16 [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.

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Constituency Name: BULANDSHAHR [Comprises KC 3-Baran, PCs 1-Luharli, 2-Joligarh, 3-Akhtayarpur, 6-Sharifpur Bhainsroli,7-Lohgra, 12-Ginora Shekh, 13-Nimchana, 14-Agouta, 15-Sihi, 17-Khangawali, 19-Karimnagar Banboi, 22-Partabpur, 23-Salavatnagar Gangawali, 25-Aulena of 2-Agouta KC & Bulandshahr MB of Bulandshahr Tehsil ]

Constituency No. 65

District: Bulandshahar (Bulandshahr is an Assembly segment under Bulandshahr Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 4,512 square kilometres
District population: 34,99,171 (general caste 79.3%; SC 20.7%; ST 0%)
District literacy: 58.1%
District urbanisation: 24.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Bulandshahr

Winner: Mohammad Aleem Khan (BSP)
Votes received: 76,646
Vote percentage: 37.18
Nearest rival: Bhirendra Singh Birohi (BJP)
Votes: 69,699
Percentage: 33.81
Difference: 6,947
Margin %: 3.37
Total voters: 3,37,612
Turnout: 61.08
Party which won Bulandshahr most number of times: Congress won four times; BJP, SP and BSP once each [since 1952]