Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SAHIBABAD [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: SAHIBABAD [Comprises PC 18-Arthala, 19-Makanpur of 2-
Loni KC, Ward Nos. 1, 8, 9 , 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 30, 33, 38, 41, 50, 55 & 60 in
Ghaziabad (M Corp.) of 2-Ghaziabad Tehsil]

Constituency No. 55

• District: Ghaziabad (Sahibabad 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 Sahibabad

• Winner: Amarpal Sharma (BSP)
  
• Votes received: 1,24,332
• Vote percentage: 37.26
• Nearest rival: Sunil Kumar Sharma (BJP)
  
• Votes: 99,984
• Percentage: 29.97
• Difference: 24,348
• Margin %: 7.30
  
• Total voters: 6,76,637
• Turnout: 49.31
• Party which won Sahibabad most number of times: The Sahibabad constituency came into existence after delimitation of 2008 [BSP won in 2012]
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Ghaziabad

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