Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: MEERUT [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: MEERUT [Comprises Ward Nos. 4, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 29, 36, 38, 42, 43, 45, 47 to 51, 53 to 58, 60, 62, 65, 68 & 69 in Meerut (M Corp.) of 3-Meerut Tehsil]

Constituency No. 48

• District: Meerut (Meerut is an Assembly segment under Meerut Lok Sabha constituency)
• District Area: 2,559 square kilometres
• District population: 20,08,7045 (general caste 81.8%; SC 18.01%; ST 0.1%)
• District literacy: 62.2%
• District urbanisation: 51.1%

2012 Assembly election result in Meerut

• Winner: Dr Laxmikant Bajpai (BJP)
• Votes received: 68,154
• Vote percentage: 38
• Nearest rival: Rafeeq Ansari (SP)
  
• Votes: 61,876
• Percentage: 34.5
• Difference: 6,278
• Margin %: 3.50
• Total voters: 2,78,845
• Turnout: 64.26
  

2014 Lok Sabha result in Meerut

Rajendra Agarwal (BJP) defeated Mohammad Shahid Akhlak (SP) by 2,32,326 votes (margin% 20.87)