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

Updated: Sunday, July 10, 2016, 20:10 [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: CHHARRA [Comprises KC 5-Chharra, PCs 29-Barala,
30-Sunhera, 34-Nausha, 35-Arni of 2-Barala KC & Chharra NP of 3-Atrauli Tehsil; KCs 5-Akarabad, 6-Vijaygarh, PCs 15-Sidhauli, 16-Asadpur Kiam, 17-Grusikharan, 18-Shahajahanpur Tajpur, 19-Ekari, 20-Changari, 21-Imlani, 22-Budhansi, 24-Jalali-II, 25-Alahdadpur, 26-Bhojpur of 2-Jalali KC, Jalali NP, Pilkhana NP, Kodiaganj NP & Vijaygarh NP of 4-Koil Tehsil]

Constituency No. 74

District: Aligarh (Chharra is an Assembly segment under Hathras Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 3,700 square kilometres
District population: 36,73,849
District literacy: 69.61%

2012 Assembly election result in Chharra

Winner: Rakesh Kumar (SP)
Votes received: 54,150
Vote percentage: 27.96
Nearest rival: Mool Chand Baghel (BSP)
Votes: 49,364
Percentage: 25.49
Difference: 4,786
Margin %: 2.47
Total voters: 3,04,457
Turnout: 63.61
Party which won Chharra most number of times: Chharra constituency came into existence after the delimitation of 2008 [SP won in 2012]