Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: GOPAMAU

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]

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Constituency Name: Gopamau(SC)

• Constituency No. 157
• District: Hardoi
• Population: 12,604
• Overall Literacy: 37 %
• Male literacy: 44%
• Female literacy: 30%

2012 Assembly election result

• Winner: Shyam Prakash (SP)
• Votes received: 67,430
• Nearest rival: Aneeta Verma (BSP)
• Votes : 61,227
• Difference: 6,203
• Margin: 6,203 (3.4%)
• Total voters: 3,03,779
• Turnout: 60.4%

• First election in Gopamau assembly constituency was held in 1962 after delimitation.
• Hardoi Parliamentary constituency comprises of six Vidhan Sabha segments. These are Sawayazpur, Shahabad, Hardoi, Gopamau, Sandi and pihani

2014 Lok Sabha result of Hardoi constituency

• Anshul Verma (BJP) defeated Shive Prasad Verma (BSP) with 81, 343 votes with margin 4.97 %.