Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: SYANA [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.

Oneindia will take one Assembly constituency a day and have a look at electoral information related to it:

Constituency Name: SYANA [Comprises 3-Syana Tehsil]

Constituency No. 66

• District: Bulandshahar (Syana is an Assembly segment under Bulandshahr 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 Syana

• Winner: Dilnawaz Khan (Congress)
  
• Votes received: 53,887
• Vote percentage: 25.79
  
• Nearest rival: Devendera Bhardwaj (BSP)
  
• Votes: 52,223
• Percentage: 25.00
  
• Difference: 1,664
• Margin %: 0.80
• Total voters: 3,44,713
• Turnout: 60.63
• Party which won Syana most number of times: Congress won eight times; BJP twice; SP and BSP never [since 1957]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Bulandshahr

Bhola Singh (BJP) defeated Pradeep Kumar Jatav (BSP) by 4,21,973 votes (margin% 41.77)