Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: LONI [GEN]

Updated: Friday, July 8, 2016, 21:39 [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: LONI [Comprises PCs 1-Agraula, 2-Lutfullapur Nawada, 3-Badshahpur Sirauli, 4-Aurangabad Ristal, 5-Behta Hajipur, 6-Pachaira, 7-Chirori, 8-
Pavisadakpur, 9-Meerpur Hindu, 10-Asalatpur (Farookh Nagar), 11-Sirora Salempur, 13-Loni, 14-Banthla, 15-Mandaula, 16-Nistauli, 17-Sharfuddi
npur Jawali of 2-Loni KC & Loni NP of 2-Ghaziabad Tehsil]

Constituency No. 53

District: Ghaziabad (Loni is an Assembly segment under Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 1,179 square kilometres
District population: 46,81,645 (general caste 83.4%; SC 16.5%; ST 0.1%)
District literacy: 66.7%
District urbanisation: 67.6%

2012 Assembly election result in Loni

Winner: Zakir Ali (BSP)
Votes received: 89,603
Vote percentage: 41.52
Nearest rival: Madan Bhaiya (RLD)
Votes: 64,355
Percentage: 29.82
Difference: 25,248
Margin %: 11.70%
Total voters: 3,58,553
Turnout: 60.19
Party which won Loni most number of times: The Loni constituency came into existence after the delimitation of 2008 [BSP won in 2012]