Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: FATEHPUR SIKRI [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: FATEHPUR SIKRI [Comprises 6-Kiraoli Tehsil]

Constituency No. 91

• District: Agra (Fatehpur Sikri 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%, Scheduled Caste 22.4%, Sceduled Tribe 0.2%)
• District literacy: 60.7%
• District urbanisation: 45.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Fatehpur Sikri

• Winner: Surajpal Singh [BSP]
• Votes received:67,191
• Vote percentage: 33.09
• Nearest rival: Rajkumar Chahar [Independent]
  
• Votes:61,568
• Percentage: 30.32
• Difference: 5,623
• Margin %: 2.77
• Total voters: 3,07,053
• Turnout: 66.14
• Party which won Fatehpur Sikri most number of times: BJP twice and its predecessor BJS once; Congress twice; BSP once and 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)