Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: THAKURDWARA [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: Thakurdwara [Comprises KCs 1-Sharif Nagar, 2-Thakurdwara, PCs 34-Jatpura, 35-Sultanpur Dost, 36-Sumal Khera, 37-Sultanpur Munda, 38-Rajpur Keshariyawa, 39-Kankar Khera, 40-Tumaria Kalan, 41-Fatanpur, 42-Sahaspuri, 43-Dhakia Peeroo, 44-Sidhwali, 45-Sarkara Khas of 3-Jatpura KC, PCs 50-Malakpur Semli, 52-Dakiya Jatt, 53-Rehta Mafi, 54-Dilari Changeri, 56-Budhanpur, 58-Payandapur, 59-Karanpur of 4-Dilari KC & Thakurdwara MB of 1-Thakurdwara Teshil; PCs 47-Udmanwala, 48-Baheri, 51-Barahi Lalpur Ahatmali, 52-Satti Khera, 53-Birpur Fatehullapur, 54-Udawala, 55-Padia Nagla Mustahkam, 56-Chandpur Mustahkam, 59-Burhanpur Mustahkam, 60-Kukar Jhundi and 61-Chaturpur Naik of 4-Bhojpur Dharmpur KC of 2-Moradabad Teshil]

• Constituency No. 26
• District: Moradabad (Thakurdwara is an Assembly segment under Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency)
  
• District Area: 3,718 square kilometres
• District population: 47,72,006 (general caste 84.7%; SC 15.3%; ST 0%)
• District literacy: 47.4%
• District urbanisation: 33%

2012 Assembly election result in Thakurdwara

• Winner: Kunwar Servesh Kumar (BJP)/ In 2014 by-election which was necessitated after Sarvesh Kumar became the MP from Moradabad,SP's Nawab Jaan defeated BJP's Rajpal Chauhan by 27,743 votes.
  
• Votes received: 84,530
• Vote percentage: 38.4%
• Nearest rival: Vijay Kumar (Mahan Dal)
• Votes: 46,556
• Percentage: 21.1%
• Difference: 37,974
• Margin %: 17.24
• Total voters: 3,09,372
• Turnout: 71.19%
• Party which has won Thakurdwara most number of times: Congress and BJP five times each; BSP twice and SP once [since 1952]
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Moradabad
Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh (BJP) defeated Dr S T Hasan (SP) by 87.504 votes (margin% 7.7)