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

Updated: Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 0:42 [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.

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]