Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MATHURA [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: MATHURA [Comprises PCs 3-Jaisinghpura, 4-Ganesara, 6-Naugaon, 13-Maholi, 14- Narholi, 15-Mathura Bangar, 16-Aurangabad, 17-Dhangaon, 18-Aduki of 4-Mathura KC, PCs 15-Sakraya Bangar, 16-Vrindaban of 2-Vrindaban KC, Vrindaban MB, Mathura MB & Mathura (CB) of 3-Mathura Tehsil. ]

Constituency No. 84

• District: Mathura (Mathura is an Assembly segment under Mathura Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 3,340 square kilometres
• District population: 25,47,184 (general caste 80%, Scheduled Caste 19.1%, Sceduled Tribe 0.1%)
• District literacy: 59.2%
• District urbanisation: 29.7%

2012 Assembly election result in Mathura

• Winner: Pradeep Mathur (Congress)
• Votes received: 54,498
• Vote percentage: 27.16
• Nearest rival: Devendra Kumar Sharma (BJP)
• Votes: 53,997
• Percentage: 26.91
• Difference: 501
• Margin %: 0.25
• Total voters: 3,58,237
• Turnout: 56.30
• Party which won Mathura most number of times: Congress won nine times; BJP four times; SP and BSP [since 1957]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Mathura

Hema Malini (BJP) defeated Jayant Chaudhary (RLD) by 3,30,743 votes (margin% 31.67)