Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KANTH [GEN]
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]
2014
Lok
Sabha
result
in
Moradabad
Kunwar
Sarvesh
Kumar
Singh
(BJP)
defeated
Dr
S
T
Hasan
(SP)
by
87.504
votes
(margin%
7.7)