Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SIKANDRA RAO [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: SIKANDRA RAO [Comprises 2-Sikandra Rao Tehsil & KC 2-Lakhanu of 3-Hathras Tehsil]

Constituency No.80

• District: Hathras (Sikandra Rao is an Assembly segment under Hathras Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 1,840 square kilometres
• District population: 15,65,678
• District literacy: 73.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Sikandra Rao

• Winner: Ramveer Upadhyay (BSP)
  
• Votes received: 94,471
• Vote percentage: 45.81
• Nearest rival: Yashpal Singh Chauhan (SP)
  
• Votes: 93,408
• Percentage: 45.3
• Difference: 1,063
• Margin %: 0.52
• Total voters: 3,18,067
• Turnout: 64.83
• Party which won Sikandra Rao most number of times: Congress won three times; BJP twice and BSP once; SP never [since 1952]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Hathras

Rajesh Kumar Diwakar (BJP) defeated Manoj Kumar Soni (BSP) by 3,26,386 votes (margin% 31.10)