Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: IGLAS [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.

Oneindia will take one Assembly constituency a day and have a look at electoral information related to it:

Constituency Name: IGLAS [SC] [Comprises 5-Iglas Tehsil & KC 4-Lodha of 4-Koil Tehsil]

Constituency No.77

• District: Aligarh (Iglas is an Assembly segment under Aligarh Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 3,700 square kilometres
• District population: 36,73,849
• District literacy: 69.61%

2012 Assembly election result in Iglas

• Winner: Triloki Ram (RLD)
  
• Votes received: 66,146
• Nearest rival: Rajendra Kumar (BSP)
  
• Votes: 57,953
• Difference: 8,193
• Margin %: 4.30
• Total voters: 3,09,684
• Turnout: 61.72
• Party which won Iglas most number of times: Congress won six times; BJP once; BSP and SP never [since 1952]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Aligarh

Satish Kumar Gautam (BJP) defeated Arvind Kumar Singh (BSP) by 2,86,736 votes (margin% 26.94)