Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KANTH [GEN]

Updated: Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 21:07 [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.

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

Constituency Name: Kanth [Comprises Kanth Teshil; PCs Baheri Brahmanan, Adampur, Salem Sarai, Maksoodpur of Jatpura KC, PCs Sadarpur, Milak Amawati, Kazipura, Gakkharpur, Mustafapur of Dilari KC of Thakurdwara Teshil & KC Pakbara of Moradabad Teshil]

Constituency No. 25
District: Moradabad (Kanth is an Assembly segment under Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 3,718 square kilometres
District population: 47,72,006 (general caste 84.7%; SC 15.3%; ST 0%)
District literacy: 47.4%
District urbanisation: 33%

2012 Assembly election result in Kanth

Winner: Aneesurrehaman (Peace Party)
Votes received: 37,092
Vote percentage: 18.48%
Nearest rival: Rizwan Ahmad Khan (BSP)
Votes: 35,558
Percentage: 17.72%
Difference: 1,534
Margin %: 0.76
Total voters: 3,02,267
Turnout: 66.41%
Party which has won Noorpur most number of times: Congress has won thrice; BSP twice; BJP once; SP never [since 1957]