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

Updated: Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 0:39 [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: SIRSAGANJ [Comprises KCs 2-Sirsaganj, 3-Madanpur, 4-Ukhrand, PCs 17-Bramhabad Lachhpur, 18-Rudhau, 19-Dadiyamai of 1-Shikohabad KC & Sirsaganj MB of 1-Shikohabad Tehsil]

Constituency No. 99

District: Firozabad (Sirsaganj is an Assembly segment under Firozabad Lok Sabha constituency)
District Area: 2,407 square kilometres
District population: 24,98,156 (general caste 80.9%, SC 19%, ST 0.1%)
District literacy: 60.9%
District urbanisation: 33.4%

2012 Assembly election result in Sirsaganj

Winner: Hariom Yadav [SP]
Votes received: 85,517
Vote percentage: 46.01
Nearest rival: E Atul Pratap Singh [BSP]
Votes: 45,502
Percentage: 24.48
Difference: 40,015
Margin %: 25.53
Total voters: 2,88,186
Turnout: 64.67
Party which won Sirsaganj most number of times: Sirsaganj constituency came into existence after the delimitation of 2008 [SP won in 2012]