Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SARDHANA [GEN]

Updated: Saturday, July 2, 2016, 23:10 [IST]

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: SARDHANA [Comprises KCs 2-Sardhana, 3-Daurala, Sardhana MB, Daurala NP & Lawar NP of 1-Sardhana Tehsil; PCs 1-Akbarpur Sadat, 2-Amroli Urf Bada Gaon, 3-Kaul, 4-Khalidpur,
5-Gadina, 6-Gagsona, 9-Pilona, 11-Batnaur, 12-Bhagwanpur, 17-Rahawti, 20-Phalauda of 1-Mawana KC & Phalauda NP of 2-Mawana Tehsil]

Constituency No. 44

District: Meerut (Sardhana is an Assembly segment under Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 2,559 square kilometres
District population: 20,08,7045 (general caste 81.8%; SC 18.01%; ST 0.1%)
District literacy: 62.2%
District urbanisation: 51.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Sardhana

Winner: Sangeet Singh Som (BJP)
Votes received: 62,438
Vote percentage: 29.1
Nearest rival: Hazi Mohammad Yaqub (RLD)
Votes: 50,164
Percentage: 23.4
Difference: 12,274
Margin %: 5.72
Total voters: 2,96,297
Turnout: 72.46%
Party which won Sardhana most number of times: Congress and BJP won five times each; BSP once; SP never [since 1957]