Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: Rudhauli (GENERAL)

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.[Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls]

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Constituency Name: Rudhauli (GENERAL)

• Constituency No. 309

• District: Basti

About the district

Basti originally known as village is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh. Basti town is the district headquarters and is a part of Basti Division.

2012 assembly election result

• Winner: Sanjay Pratap Jaiswal (Indian National Congress)

• Votes received: 55,950 (27.5%)

• Nearest rival: Rajendra Prasad Chaudhary (Bahujan Samaj Party)

• Votes: 50,107 (24.7%)

• Difference: 5,843 (2.9%)

• Turn out: 2,03,105 (57.0%)

• Total votes: 3,56,501

Mukut Behari Lal was the first MLA of Rudauli assembly constituency. The first election in the constituency was held in 1957.