Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: TUNDLA [SC]

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: TUNDLA [SC] [Comprises 1-Tundla Tehsil; KCs 1-Narkhi & 2-Pachwan of 2-Firozabad Tehsil]

Constituency No. 95

• District: Firozabad (Tundla 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 Tundla

• Winner:Rakesh Babu [BSP]
  
• Votes received: 67,949
• Vote percentage: 32.79
• Nearest rival: Akhlesh Kumar [SP]
  
• Votes: 60,003
• Percentage:28.96
• Difference: 7,946
• Margin %: 3.83
• Total voters: 3,26,192
• Turnout: 63.79
• Party which won Tundla most number of times: Congress won thrice; SP twice; BJP and BSP once each [since 1974]

2014 Lok Sabha result in Firozabad

Akshay Yadav (SP) defeated Prof SP Singh Baghel (BJP) by 1,14,059 votes (margin% 10.32)