Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: RAMPUR [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: RAMPUR [Comprises KC 3-Panwaria & Rampur MB of 3-Rampur Tehsil]

Constituency No. 37

• District: Rampur (Rampur is an Assembly segment under Rampur Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 2,265 square kilometres
• District population: 23,35,819 (general caste 86.8%; SC 13.2%; ST 0%)
• District literacy: 44.7%
• District urbanisation: 25.2%

2012 Assembly election result in Rampur

• Winner: Mohammad Azam Khan (SP)
  
• Votes received: 95,772
• Vote percentage: 55.3
  
• Nearest rival: Dr Tanveer Ahmed Khan (Congress)
  
• Votes: 42,641
• Percentage: 21.96%
• Difference: 63,269
• Margin %: 36.54
• Total voters: 3,18,714
• Turnout: 54.55%
• Party which has won Rampur most number of times: Congress has won six times; SP four times; BJP and BSP never [since 1952]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Rampur
Dr Nepal Singh (BJP) defeated Naseer Ahmed Khan (SP) by 23,435 vots (margin% 2.45)