Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: Itwa (General)

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 Up Constituencies)

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2012 Assembly election result in Itwa (Siddharthnagar district)

Winner: Mata Prasad Pandey (Samajwadi Party)

Votes received: 46,142

Votes percentage:31.4

Nearest Rival: Subodh Chandra (Bahujan Samajwadi Party)

Votes: 34,408

Percentage: 23.4%

Difference: 8%

Total voters: 2,82,321

Turnout: 1,47,152 (52.1%)

First election in Itwa assembly constituency was held in 1974 and Gopinath Kameshwar Puri of BJS became first MLA of the constituency.

Mata Prasad Pandey won Itwa constituency for the six consecutive term from Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal, Janata Party (Secular) and Lok Dal.