Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KUNDARKI [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: KUNDARKI [Comprises KCs 3-Got, 5-Mundapande of 2-Moradabad Teshil; KC 1-Kundarki & Kundarki N.P of 3-Bilari Tehsil]

• Constituency No. 29
• District: Moradabad (Kundarki is an Assembly segment under Sambhal 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 Kundarki

• Winner: Mohammad Rizwan (SP)
  
• Votes received: 81,302
• Vote percentage:37%
• Nearest rival: Ramveer Singh (BJP)
• Votes: 64,101
• Percentage: 29.2%
  
• Difference: 17,201
• Margin %: 7.84
• Total voters: 3,09,558
• Turnout: 70.92%
• Party which has won Kundarki most number of times: Congress, SP and BSP twice each; BJP once [since 1962]
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Sambhal
Satyapal Singh Saini (BJP) defeated Shafiqur Rahman Barq (SP) by 5,174 vots (margin% 0.49)