Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: CHANDAUSI [SC]

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: CHANDAUSI [SC] [Comprises KC 3-Narauli, PCs 1-Maulagarh,2-Pathra, 3 Gumthal, 4-Akrauli, 5-Baniya Khera, 6-Fatehpurdal, 7-Ashlatnagar Jarai, 8-Raholi, 21-Mohamad Nagar Kasba, 22-Pachak of 1-Chandausi KC, PCs 24-Bahjoi Dehat, 34-Behta Jaisingh, 40-Sadat Wari, 41-Khajra Khakham, 42-Arjunpur Juna, 43-Machhkhera, 44-Maithra Dharmpur, 45-Rampura, 46-Maukather of 2-Bahjoi KC, Narauli NP, Chandausi MB & Bahjoi MB of 5-Chandausi Teshil]

• Constituency No. 31
• District: Moradabad (Chandausi is an Assembly segment under Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency)
  
• District Area: 3,718 square kilometres
• District population: 47,72,006 (general caste 84.7%; SC 15.3%; ST 0%)
• District literacy: 47.4%
• District urbanisation: 33%

2012 Assembly election result in Chandausi

• Winner: Laxmi Gautam (SP)
• Votes received: 55,871
• Vote percentage: 29.1%
• Nearest rival: Gulab Devi (BJP)
• Votes: 51,864
• Percentage: 27%
• Difference: 4,007
• Margin %: 2.09
• Total voters: 3,15,211
• Turnout: 60.88%
• Party which has won Chandausi most number of times: Congress and BJP four times each; SP won twice; BSP once [since 1962]
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Sambhal
Satyapal Singh Saini (BJP) defeated Shafiqur Rahman Barq (SP) by 5,174 vots (margin% 0.49)