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

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: FATEHABAD [Comprises 2-Fatehabad Tehsil]

Constituency No. 93

• District: Agra (Fatehabad is an Assembly segment under Fatehpur Sikri Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 4,041 square kilometres
• District population: 44,18,797 (general caste 77.4%, SC 22.4%, ST 0.2%)
• District literacy: 60.7%
• District urbanisation: 45.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Fatehabad

• Winner: Chotelal Verma [BSP]
• Votes received: 73,098
• Vote percentage: 39.7
  
• Nearest rival: Rajendra Singh [SP]
• Votes: 72,399
• Percentage: 39.32
• Difference: 699
• Margin %: 0.38
• Total voters: 2,64,837
• Turnout: 69.53
• Party which won Fatehabad most number of times: Congress won four times; BJP thrice; BSP once; SP never [since 1957]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Fatehpur Sikri

Chaudhary Babulal (BJP) defeated Seema Upadhyay (BSP) by 1,73,106 votes (margin% 17.88)