Azamgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)

Azamgarh
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Vacant
Constituency Details
Established	1952
Reservation	None
State	Uttar Pradesh
Most Successful Party	Indian National Congress (7 times)
Assembly Constituencies	Gopalpur Sagri Mubarakpur Azamgarh Mehnagar

Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

Vidhan Sabha segments

Presently, Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
344	Gopalpur	None	Azamgarh
345	Sagri	None	Azamgarh
346	Mubarakpur	None	Azamgarh
347	Azamgarh	None	Azamgarh
352	Mehnagar	SC	Azamgarh

Members of Lok Sabha

Year	Elected MP	Party
1952	Algu Rai Shastri	Indian National Congress
1957	Kalika Singh
1962	Ram Harakh Yadav
1967	Chandrajit Yadav
1971
1977	Ram Naresh Yadav	Janata Party
1978^	Mohsina Kidwai	Indian National Congress (I)
1980	Chandrajit Yadav	Janata Party (Secular)
1984	Santosh Singh	Indian National Congress
1989	Ram Krishna Yadav	Bahujan Samaj Party
1991	Chandrajit Yadav	Janata Dal
1996	Ramakant Yadav	Samajwadi Party
1998	Akbar Ahmad	Bahujan Samaj Party
1999	Ramakant Yadav	Samajwadi Party
2004		Bahujan Samaj Party
2008^	Akbar Ahmad
2009	Ramakant Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Mulayam Singh Yadav	Samajwadi Party
2019	Akhilesh Yadav (Resigned)

^ by poll

Election results

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Azamgarh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Akhilesh Yadav	6,21,578	60.04	+24.61
	BJP	Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua'	3,61,704	35.1	+6.25
	[[Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party|Template:Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party/meta/shortname]]	Abhimanyu Singh Sunny	10,078	1.0	+1
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Ulama Council/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Rashtriya Ulama Council|Template:Rashtriya Ulama Council/meta/shortname]]	Anil Singh	6,763	0.7	-0.68
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,255	0.7	+0.11
	Independent	Rajiv Talwar	2,204	0.21	New
Majority			2,59,874	25.3	+18.72
Turnout			10,29,796	57.56
	SP hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Azamgarh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Mulayam Singh Yadav	3,40,306	35.43	+17.86
	BJP	Ramakant Yadav	2,77,102	28.85	-6.28
	BSP	Shah Alam (Guddu Jamali)	2,66,528	27.75	-0.43
	INC	Arvind Kumar Jaiswal	17,950	1.87	-2.55
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Ulama Council/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Rashtriya Ulama Council|Template:Rashtriya Ulama Council/meta/shortname]]	Aamir Rashadi Madni	13,271	1.38	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,660	0.59	N/A
Margin of victory			63,204	6.58	-0.37
Turnout			9,60,600	56.40	+11.76
	SP gain from BJP		Swing	+0.30

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Azamgarh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramakant Yadav	2,47,648	35.13
	BSP	Akbar Ahmad Dumpy	1,98,609	28.18
	SP	Durga Prasad Yadav	1,23,844	17.57
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Ulama Council/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Rashtriya Ulama Council|Template:Rashtriya Ulama Council/meta/shortname]]	Dr. Javed Akhtar	59,270	8.41
	INC	Santosh Kumar Singh	31,159	4.42
Margin of victory			49,039	6.95
Turnout			7,04,863	44.64
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing

See also

• Azamgarh district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

External links

• Azamgarh lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details
• Azamgarh Lok Sabha Results from 1971 to 2014