Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MORADABAD NAGAR [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: MORADABAD NAGAR [Comprises Ward Nos. 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 to 16, 19, 20, 22, 23,25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37,38, 43, 44, 46, 49, 50, 56, 59 & 60 in
Moradabad (M Corp.), of 2-Moradabad Teshil]

• Constituency No. 28
• District: Moradabad (Moradabad Nagar is an Assembly segment under Moradabad 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 Moradabad Nagar

• Winner: Mohammad Yusuf Ansari (SP)
  
• Votes received: 88.341
• Vote percentage: 42.2%
• Nearest rival: Ritesh Kumar Gupta (BJP)
• Votes: 68,103
• Percentage:32.5%
• Difference: 20,238
• Margin %: 9.66
• Total voters: 3,88,966
• Turnout: 53.85%
• Party which has won Moradabad Nagar most number of times: Congress and BJP four times each; SP thrice; BSP never [since 1952]
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Moradabad
Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh (BJP) defeated Dr S T Hasan (SP) by 87.504 votes (margin% 7.7)