Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SIKANDRABAD [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: SIKANDRABAD [Comprises 1-Sikandrabad Tehsil; PCs 4-Chhapravat, 5-Baral, 8-Sainta, 9-Kurli, 10-Kota, 11-Bhamra, 16-Anchana, 18-Girdharpur Navada, 20-Gulaothi (Dehat), 21-Auladha, 24-Maholi of 2-Agouta KC & Gulaothi MB of 2-Bulandshahr Tehsil]

Constituency No. 64

• District: Bulandshahar (Sikandrabad is an Assembly segment under Gautam Buddha Nagar Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 4,512 square kilometres
• District population: 34,99,171 (general caste 79.3%; SC 20.7%; ST 0%)
• District literacy: 58.1%
• District urbanisation: 24.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Sikandrabad

• Winner: Bimla Singh Solanki (BJP)
  
• Votes received: 45,799
• Vote percentage:22.31
• Nearest rival: Salim Akhtar Khan (BSP)
  
• Votes: 45,676
• Percentage:22.25
• Difference: 123
• Margin %: 0.06
• Total voters: 3,38,407
  
• Turnout: 60.68
• Party which won Sikandrabad most number of times: Congress won five times; BJP twice; SP and BSP once each [since 1957]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Gautam Buddha Nagar

Mahesh Kumar Sharma (BJP) defeated Narendra Bhati (SP) by 2,80,212 votes (margin% 23.36)