Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SAMBHAL [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: SAMBHAL [Comprises KC 5-Sambhal City, PCs 56-Sirsi, 58-Barahi, 59-Nawada, 60-Gumsani, 61-Betla, 62-Fatehulla Ganj, 63-Seedal Mafi, 66-Saindhri, 69-Hazratnagar Garhi, 71-Battva, 72-Basoda, 73-Dondi of 4-Sirsi KC, Sambhal MB & Sirsi NP of 4-Sambhal Tehsil]
- Constituency No. 33
- District: Moradabad (Sambhal is an Assembly segment under Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency)
- District Area: 3,718 square kilometres
- District population: 47,72,006 (general caste 84.7%; SC 15.3%; ST 0%)
- District literacy: 47.4%
- District urbanisation: 33%
2012 Assembly election result in Sambhal
- Winner: Iqbal Mehmood (SP)
- Votes received:79,820
- Vote percentage: 40.7%
-
Nearest
rival:
Rajesh
Singhal
(BJP)
- Votes: 49,773
- Percentage: 25.4%
- Difference: 30,047
- Margin %: 15.32%
- Total voters: 2,95,475
- Turnout: 66.39%
-
Party
which
has
won
Sambhal
most
number
of
times:
SP
four
times;
Congress
thrice;
BJP
once;
BSP
never
[since
1951]
2014
Lok
Sabha
result
in
Sambhal
Satyapal
Singh
Saini
(BJP)
defeated
Shafiqur
Rahman
Barq
(SP)
by
5,174
vots
(margin%
0.49)