Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: LUCKNOW NORTH

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. [Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls]

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

Constituency Name: Lucknow North (GEN)

• Constituency No. 172
• District: Lucknow
• Population of the district: 3,588,455
• Overall Literacy: 79.33%
• Sex ratio: 906/1000

2012 Assembly election result

• Winner: Abhishek Mishra (SP)
• Votes received: 47,580
• Nearest rival: Dr. Neeraj Bora (INC)
• Votes: 45,361
• Difference: 2,219
• Margin: 2,219 (1.3%)
• Total voters: 3, 36,777
• Turnout: 50.0%

Lucknow North comprises of ward nos. 9, 14, 27, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, 48, 51, 60, 66, 69, 72, 84, 93, 103 & 105 in Lucknow (M Corp.) of 3-Lucknow Tehsil.

Lok Sabha constituency

• Lucknow North assembly seat falls under Lucknow LS constituency
• Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency comprises of five legislative assembly segments.
• These are Lucknow West, Lucknow North, Lucknow East, Lucknow Central and Lucknow Cantt.
• In 2014 LS poll, BJP's Raj Nath Singh defeated Congress' Rita Bahuguna Joshi from this seat.