Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: FATEHPUR SIKRI [GEN]

Published: Monday, July 11, 2016, 22:44 [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.

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

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]