Thakurdwara assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh was won by the Samajwadi Party (SP) in 2017. Nawab Jan defeated Rajpal Singh Chauhan of BJP by a margin of 13,409 votes.
The BJP had won 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats in 2017, earning an absolute majority and ousting the Samajwadi Party. Yogi Adityanath, the MP from Gorakhpur, was made the chief minister.
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The Samajwadi Party (SP) came second behind the BJP, winning just 47 assembly seats, Mayawati led BSP was third with 19 seats and the Congress (INC) won mere seven seats.
First assembly election on Thakurdwara seat was held in 1951 after the delimitation order (DPACO-1951) was passed in 1951. It is the 26th constituency of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India, as per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008.
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Thakurdwara is an open constituency. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency. Dr ST Hassan from Samajwadi Party (SP) is the current Member of Parliament (MP) from Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency.
In 2012, the Samajwadi Party had won the elections with 224 seats, the BSP was second, winning 80 seats, the BJP had won 47, and the Congress 28.
In the Assembly elections 2012, the BJP won the Thakurdwara assembly constituency by a margin of 37,974 votes. The winning BJP Candidate Kunwar Servesh Kumar got 84,530 votes and the runner up Vijay Kumar (MD) got 46,556 votes. The voter turnout was 71.19%.
In 2014, Assembly By-Election on Bijnor assembly seat, Samajwadi Party’s Nawab Jan defeated BJP candidate Rajpal Chauhan by 27,743 votes.
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Quick facts about the Thakurdwara assembly seat:
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Thakurdwara, Moradabad
Name of the winner, party: Nawab Jan, Samajwadi Party (SP)
Lok Sabha constituency: Moradabad
Top 3 candidates 2017: Nawab Jan (SP), Rajpal Singh Chauhan (BJP), Vijay Yadav (BSP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Kunwar Servesh Kumar (BJP), Vijay Kumar (MD), Nawab Jan (INC)
Sitting MLA, party: Nawab Jan (SP)
Winning margin in 2017: 13,409
Runner up name, party: Rajpal Singh Chauhan, BJP
Number of voters in 2017: 256,427
Percentage of votes polled in 2017: 73.74%
