Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: ETAH

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. [Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls]

OneIndia will take one Assembly constituency a day and have a look at electoral information related to it:

Constituency Name: Etah

• Constituency No. 104
  
• District: Etah
  
• District Area: 4,446 sq km
• District population: 1,761,152
• District literacy: 73.27%

2012 Assembly election result in Etah

• Winner: Ashish Kumar Yadav (SP)
• Votes received: 39,282
• Vote percentage: 24.02
• Nearest rival: Gajendra Singh Babloo (BSP)
• Votes: 36,038
• Percentage: 22.04
• Difference: 3,244
• Margin: 2.0%
  
• Total voters: 2,86,337
  
• Turnout: 1,63,542

First election in Etah assembly constituency was held in 1952 after the delimitation order was passed in 1951.

Etah Lok Sabha constituency comprises of 5 legislative assembly segments. These are: Amanpur, Etah, Kasganj, Marhara and Patiyali.

2014 Lok Sabha result in Etah

Rajveer Singh (BJP) defeated Devendra Singh Yadav (SP) by 51,650 votes by a margin of 29.27%.