Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MURADNAGAR [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: MURADNAGAR [Comprises KC 3-Muradnagar and 5-Muradnagar MB of 1-Modinagar Tehsil; PCs 2-Duhai, 4-Ataur, 5-Shamsher, 9-Sadarpur, 17-Bahadurpur of 1-Ghaziabad KC, Ward Nos. 7,12, 24, 27, 31, 32, 34, 39, 40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 54, 56 & 58 in Ghaziabad (M Corp.) of 2-Ghaziabad Tehsil]

Constituency No. 54

• District: Ghaziabad (Muradnagar 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 Muradnagar

• Winner: Wahab Chaudhary (BSP)
  
• Votes received: 57,103
• Vote percentage: 26.43
• Nearest rival: Rajpal Tyagi (SP)
  
• Votes: 53,481
• Percentage: 24.75
• Difference: 3,622
• Margin %:1.68
• Total voters: 3,46,610
• Turnout: 62.34
• Party which won Muradnagar most number of times: Congress won four times; SP and BSP once each; BJP never [since 1967]
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Ghaziabad

Vijay Kumar Singh (BJP) defeated Raj Babbar (Congress) by 5,67,260 votes (margin% 42.03)