Ghatampur Lok Sabha constituency

Ghatampur
Former Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Established	1957
Abolished	2008

Ghatampur was one of the 80 parliamentary constituencies of Uttar Pradesh till 2008.

Assembly segments

No	Name	District	Electorate (2007)
269	Jahanabad	Fatehpur	2,23,982
278	Ghatampur	Kanpur Nagar	2,53,756
279	Bhognipur (SC)	Kanpur Dehat	2,52,658
280	Rajpur		2,49,952
284	Derapur		2,50,986

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1957	Tula Ram		Indian National Congress
1962
1967
1971
1977	Jwala Prasad Kureel		Janata Party
1980	Ashkaran Sankhwar		Janata Party (Secular)
1984			Indian National Congress (I)
1989	Keshari Lal		Janata Dal
1991
1996	Kamal Rani		Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
1999	Pyare Lal Sankhwar		Bahujan Samaj Party
2004	Radhey Shyam Kori		Samajwadi Party
2008 onwards : Constituency does not exist

Election results

2004 Indian general election: Ghatampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Radhey Shyam Kori	160,117	31.72
	BSP	Pyare Lal Sankhwar	1,49,805	29.67
	BJP	Kamal Rani	1,22,845	24.33
	AD(K)	Umakant Manjhi	46,022	9.11
	INC	Askaran Sankhwar	12,353	2.44
Majority			10,312	2.05
Turnout			5,04,766	41.80
	SP gain from BSP		Swing

1999 Indian general election: Ghatampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Pyare Lal Sankhwar	1,56,582	28.06
	SP	Aruna Kumari Kori	1,56,477	28.04
	BJP	Kamal Rani	1,55,987	27.95
	AD(K)	Jagdish Chandra	57,799	10.36
	INC	Askaran Sankhwar	29,859	5.35
Majority			105	0.02
Turnout			5,58,114	50.16
	BSP gain from BJP		Swing

1998 Indian general election: Ghatampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kamal Rani	2,06,598	36.92
	SP	Shiv Kumar Beria	1,64,109	29.32
	BSP	Bhagwati Prasad Sagar	1,37,121	24.50
	AD(K)	Virendra	20,335	3.63
	JD	Keshari Lal	17,669	3.16
	INC	Dr. Pushpa	10,267	1.83
Majority			42,489	7.60
Turnout			5,59,653	51.01
	BJP hold		Swing

1996 Indian general election: Ghatampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kamal Rani	1,47,215	33.23
	BSP	Dhani Ram Sankhwar	1,36,064	30.71
	JD	Keshari Lal	92,442	20.86
	INC	Saroj Prasad	24,718	5.58
	AD(K)	Babu Lal	16,141	3.64
Majority			11,151	2.52
Turnout			4,43,075	40.76
	BJP gain from JD		Swing

See also

• Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency
• Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency
• Etawah Lok Sabha constituency
• Jalaun Lok Sabha constituency
• Fatehpur Lok Sabha constituency
• Ghatampur
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha