Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: HARDOI

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: Hardoi (GEN)

• Constituency No. 156
• Population: 4,091,380
• Overall Literacy: 68.89%
• Sex ratio: 856/1000

2012 Assembly election result

• Winner: Nitin Agarwal (SP)
• Votes received: 110,063
• Nearest rival: Raja Bux Singh (BSP)
• Votes: 66,381
• Difference: 43,682
• Margin: 43,682 (21.7%)
• Total voters: 3, 40,302
• Turnout: 59.1 %

Past records of Assembly seat

• In 2007, Naresh Chandra Agarwal(SP) defeated Ram Kumar Kuril(BSP) with 23,249 votes.
• In 2002, Naresh Chandra Agarwal(SP) defeated Shiv Prasad(BSP) with 26, 583 votes.

District Hardoi comprises of 5 tehsils, 19 blocks, 191 Nyay Panchayat, 1101 Gram Sabha, and 1901 villages. The name of tehsils are Hardoi, Shahabad, Bilgram, Sandila, and Sawayajpur.

2014 Lok Sabha result of Hardoi

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