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Puranpur is a town and a municipal board in Pilibhit district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. After independence and Partition of India the large numbers of Sikhs migrated and settled in the Puranpur Region. Due to dense Sikh population and their lifestyle, The area is also known as Mini Punjab as after Partition of India in 1947.
Puranpur Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Pilibhit district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Pilibhit (Lok Sabha constituency). First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1962 after the "DPACO (1961)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1961. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 129.