Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KOIL [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: KOIL [Comprises KC 1-Koil, PC 35-Bhamola Mafi of 3-Morthal KC & Ward Nos. 7, 22, 28, 30 to 34, 36, 40 to 44, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53 & 57 in Aligarh (M Corp.) of 4-Koil Tehsil]

Constituency No.75

• District: Aligarh (Koil is an Assembly segment under Aligarh Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 3,700 square kilometres
• District population: 36,73,849
• District literacy: 69.61%

2012 Assembly election result in Koil

• Winner: Zameer Ullah Khan (SP)
• Votes received: 44,847
• Vote percentage: 25.42
• Nearest rival: Vivek Bansal (Congress)
  
• Votes: 44,248
• Percentage: 25.08
• Difference: 599
• Margin %: 0.34
• Total voters: 2,93,029
• Turnout: 60.21
• Party which won Koil most number of times: Congress won six times; BJP four times; BSP and SP once [since 1952]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Aligarh

Satish Kumar Gautam (BJP) defeated Arvind Kumar Singh (BSP) by 2,86,736 votes (margin% 26.94)