 "UP's bellwether")
The Kasganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh has kept its 43-year-old record intact. Since 1974, the constituency has returned the candidate from a party that goes on to form the government. And it has got it right for the past 11 Assembly elections. No other constituency in the state has this distinction. In the 2017 elections, Devendra Singh Rajput, a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, won from Kasganj. He defeated his nearest rival, Hasrat Ullah Sherwani of the Samajwadi Party, by more than 52,000 votes.
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