Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: FIROZABAD [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: FIROZABAD [Comprises Firozabad MB, Humayunpur (OG), Nagla Bhau (OG), Mirza Nagla (OG), Ambedkar Park (OG), Ramgarh Nagla Kothi (OG), Asafabad (OG), Kakarahu (OG), Lalpur (OG) & Sukhmalpur Nizamabad (CT) of 2 Firozabad Tehsil]

Constituency No. 97

• District: Firozabad (Firozabad is an Assembly segment under Firozabad Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 2,407 square kilometres
• District population: 24,98,156 (general caste 80.9%, SC 19%, ST 0.1%)
• District literacy: 60.9%
• District urbanisation: 33.4%

2012 Assembly election result in Firozabad

• Winner: Manish Asiza [BJP]
  
• Votes received: 74,878
• Vote percentage:33.67
• Nearest rival: Azim Bhai [SP]
  
• Votes: 72,863
• Percentage: 32.76
• Difference: 2,015
• Margin %: 0.91
• Total voters: 3,05,791
• Turnout: 66.87
• Party which won Firozabad most number of times: BJP and SP twice each; Congress and BSP once each [since 1957]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Firozabad

Akshay Yadav (SP) defeated Prof SP Singh Baghel (BJP) by 1,14,059 votes (margin% 10.32)