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

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: HATHRAS [SC] [Comprises 5-Iglas Tehsil & KC 4-Lodha of 4-Koil Tehsil]

Constituency No.78

• District: Hathras (Hathras is an Assembly segment under Hathras Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 1,840 square kilometres
• District population: 15,65,678
• District literacy: 73.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Hathras

• Winner: Gajendra Lal Chaudhary (BSP)
  
• Votes received: 59,161
• Vote percentage: 28.88
• Nearest rival: Rajesh Kumar (BJP)
  
• Votes: 50,488
• Percentage: 24.65
• Difference: 8,673
• Margin %: 4.23
• Total voters: 3,46,878
• Turnout: 59.24
• Party which won Hathras most number of times: Congress won six times; BJP thrice and BJS once; BSP thrice; SP never [since 1952]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Hathras

Rajesh Kumar Diwakar (BJP) defeated Manoj Kumar Soni (BSP) by 3,26,386 votes (margin% 31.10)