Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: HASTINAPUR [SC]

Updated: Monday, July 4, 2016, 20:15 [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.

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Constituency Name: HASTINAPUR (SC) [Comprises KCs 2-Hastinapur, 3-Parikshatgarh, PCs 7-Tatina, 8-Niloha, 10-Bana, 13-Bhainsa, 14-Mawana Kalan-I, 15-Mawana Khurd, 16-Mubarikpur, 18-Sandhan, 19-Dhikoli of 1-Mawana KC, Mawana MB, Bahsooma NP, Hastinapur NP & Parikshatgarh NP of 2-
Mawana Tehsil]

Constituency No. 45

District: Meerut (Hastinapur is an Assembly segment under Bijnor Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 2,559 square kilometres
District population: 20,08,7045 (general caste 81.8%; SC 18.01%; ST 0.1%)
District literacy: 62.2%
District urbanisation: 51.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Hastinapur

Winner: Prabhu Dayal Balmiki (SP)
Votes received: 46,742
Vote percentage: 25.31
Nearest rival: Yogesh Verma (PECP)
Votes: 40,101
Percentage: 21.71
Difference: 6,641
Margin %: 3.60
Total voters: 3,00,172
Turnout: 61.60%
Party which won Hastinapur most number of times: Congress won six times; SP twice; BSP once; BJP never [since 1957]