Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KHURJA [SC]

Updated: Sunday, July 10, 2016, 17:38 [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: KHURJA [SC] [Comprises 7-Khurja Tehsil]

Constituency No. 70

District: Bulandshahar (Khurja is an Assembly segment under Gautam Buddha Nagar Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 4,512 square kilometres
District population: 34,99,171 (general caste 79.3%; SC 20.7%; ST 0%)
District literacy: 58.1%
District urbanisation: 24.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Khurja

Winner: Banshi Singh Pahadiya (Congress)
Votes received: 98,913
Vote percentage: 47.13
Nearest rival: Horam Singh (BSP)
Votes: 61,609
Percentage: 29.36
Difference:37,304
Margin %: 17.78
Total voters: 3,26,538
Turnout: 64.32
Party which won Khurja most number of times: Congress won seven times; BJP and BSP twice each; SP never [since 1952]