Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: PATIYALI

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: Patiyali

• Constituency No. 102
• District: Kasganj (Patiyali is an assembly segment under Kasganj Lok Sabha constituency)
  
• District Area: 2,218 sq km
• District population: 12,254
• District literacy: 73%

2012 Assembly election result in Patiyali

• Winner: Najeeva Khan Zeenat (SP)
• Votes received: 62,493
• Vote percentage: 35.44
• Nearest rival: Suraj Singh Shakya (BSP)
• Votes: 34,718
• Percentage: 19.69
• Difference: 27,775
• Margin: 15.8
• Total voters: 3,06,382
• Turnout: 57.5%

First election in Patiyali assembly constituency was held in 1969 after the delimitation order was passed in 1967.

2014 Lok Sabha result in Kasganj

Rajveer Singh (BJP) defeated Devendra Singh Yadav (SP) by 51,650 votes by a margin of 29.27%.