Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SAROJINI NAGAR

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: Sarojini Nagar (GEN)

• Constituency No. 170
• District: Lucknow
• Population of the district: 3,588,455
• Overall Literacy: 79.33%
• Sex ratio: 906/1000

2012 Assembly election result

• Winner: Sharda Pratap Shukla (SP)
• Votes received: 67,601
• Nearest rival: Shiv Shanker Singh (BSP)
• Votes: 59,236
• Difference: 8,365
• Margin: 8,365 (3.6%)
• Total voters: 3,95,623
• Turnout: 59.0%

Sarojini Nagar comprises of KCs 4-Khushal Ganj, 5-Banthara, 6-Bijnaur, Ward Nos. 1 to 4, 7, 12 & 16 in Lucknow (M Corp.) of 3-Lucknow Tehsil.

Lok Sabha constituency

• Sarojini Nagar assembly seat falls under Mohanlalganj LS constituency
• In 2014 LS poll, BJP's Kaushal Kishore defeated BSP's R. K. Choudhary from this seat

Past records of Sarojini Nagar assembly seat

• In 2007, Mohd.Irshad Khan (BSP) defeated Shyam Kishore Yadav(SP) with 5,424 votes.
• In 2002, Mohd.Irshad Khan (BSP) defeated Shyam Kishore Yadav(SP) with 2,592 votes.