Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KASGANJ [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.

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Constituency Name: KASGANJ [Comprises KCs 1-Nameni, 2-Bilram, 3-Soron, Soron MB, Kasganj MB & Bilram NP of 1-Kasganj Tehsil]

Constituency No. 100

• District: Etah (Kasganj is an Assembly segment under Etah Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 2,431 square kilometres
• District population: 17,74,480 (general caste 84.2%, SC 15.8%, ST 0%)
• District literacy: 59.5%
• District urbanisation: 15.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Kasganj

• Winner: Manpal Singh [SP]
• Votes received: 48,535
• Vote percentage: 25.41
• Nearest rival: Hasrat Ullah Sherwani [BSP]
• Votes: 38,356
• Percentage: 20.08
• Difference: 10,179
• Margin %: 5.33
• Total voters: 3,20,619
• Turnout: 59.56
• Party which won Kasganj most number of times: Congress won six times; BJP thrice and its predecessor BJP twice; SP twice; BSP once [since 1952]
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Etah

Rajveer Singh (BJP) defeated Devendra Singh Yadav (SP) by 2,01,001 votes (margin% 21.70)