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

Updated: Saturday, June 25, 2016, 11:29 [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: Chandpur

[Comprises KCs Chandpur, Basta, PCs Aurangabad, Azamgarh Urf Ratangarh, Azampur, Dharupur, Dhundli, Govli, Heempur Bujurg, Jujhaila, Majhaula Gujar, Murahat, Phoona, Yusufa of Phoona KC & Chandpur MB of Chandpur Tehsi]

Constituency No. 23
District: Bijnor (Chandpur is an Assembly segment under Bijnor Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 4,561 square kilometres
District population: 36,82,713 (general caste 78.5%; SC 21.4%; ST 0.1%)
District literacy: 58% District urbanisation: 25.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Bijnor

Winner: Iqbal (BSP)
Votes received: 54,941
Vote percentage: 29.20%
Nearest rival: Shairbaz Khan (SP)
Votes: 39,928
Percentage: 21.22%
Difference: 15,013
Margin %: 7.98
Total voters: 2,78,379
Turnout: 67.60%
Party which has won Bijnor most number of times: Congress, BJP and BSP once each [since 1957]