Basti (Lok Sabha constituency)

Basti
Basti
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Harish Dwivedi
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019 Election
Constituency Details
Established	1951–present
Reservation	None
State	Uttar Pradesh
Most Successful Party	Bharatiya Janata Party (6 times); Indian National Congress (7 times);
Assembly Constituencies	Harraiya; Kaptanganj; Rudhauli; Basti Sadar; Mahadewa

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Basti Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.^[1]^[2]

Assembly Segments[edit]

There are five assembly constituencies in Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:

Constituency number	Name of Constituency	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Name of Member	Party
307	Harraiya	None	Basti	Ajay Kumar Singh	BJP
308	Kaptanganj	None	Basti	Kavindra Chaudhary	SP
309	Rudhauli	None	Basti	Rajendra Prasad Chaudhary	SP
310	Basti Sadar	None	Basti	Mahendra Nath Yadav	SP
311	Mahadewa	SC	Basti	Doodhram	SBSP

Members of Parliament[edit]

Year	Elected MP	Party
1951	Uday Shankar Dubey	Indian National Congress
1957	Ram Garib	Independent
1957^	Keshav Dev Malviya	Indian National Congress
1962	Keshav Dev Malviya
1967	Sheo Narain
1971	Anant Prasad Dhusia
1977	Sheo Narain	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Kalpnath Sonkar	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1984	Ram Awadh Prasad	Indian National Congress
1989	Kalpnath Sonkar	Janata Dal
1991	Shyam Lal Kamal	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Sriram Chauhan
1998
1999
2004	Lal Mani Prasad	Bahujan Samaj Party
2009	Arvind Kumar Chaudhary	Bahujan Samaj Party
2014	Harish Chandra Dwivedi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Harish Chandra Dwivedi	Bharatiya Janata Party

^ by poll

Election results[edit]

17th Lok Sabha: 2019 General Election[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Basti
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Harish Dwivedi	4,71,163	44.68	+10.57
	BSP	Ram Prasad Chaudhary	4,40,808	41.8	+14.74
	INC	Raj Kishor Singh	86,920	8.24
	[[Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party\|Template:Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party/meta/shortname]]	Vinod Kumar Rajbhar	11,971	1.14
	HND	Rohit Kumar Pathak	3,182	0.3
	NOTA	NOTA	10,298	0.98	+ 0.01
	Others	Remaining Candidates	30,184	2.84	-0.66
Majority			30,354	2.88	-0.32
Turnout			10,55,201	57.19
	BJP hold		Swing

16th Lok Sabha: 2014 General Election[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Basti
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Harish Dwivedi	3,57,680	34.11	+18.96
	SP	Brij Kishor Singh "Dimpal"	324,118	30.91	+9.79
	BSP	Ram Prasad Chaudhary	283,747	27.06	-7.66
	INC	Ambika Singh	27,673	2.64	-9.67
	AAP	Anand Rajpal	8,407	0.80	+0.80
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,168	0.97	+0.97
		Remainder 8 candidates	36,741	3.50	N/A
Majority			33,562	3.20
Turnout			10,48,539	58.66
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing	-4.46

15th Lok Sabha: 2009 General Election[edit]

2009 Indian general elections: Basti^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Arvind Kumar Chaudhary	2,68,666	34.72
	SP	Raj Kishor Singh	1,63,456	21.12
	BJP	Dr. Y. D. Singh	1,17,259	15.15
	INC	Basant Chaudhary	95,235	12.31
	PECP	Daya Shankar Patwa	67,987	8.79
		Remainder 11 candidates	36,741	3.50	N/A
Majority			1,05,210	13.60
Turnout			7,73,779	49.26
	BSP hold		Swing

External links[edit]

Basti lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

Coordinates: 26°47′N 82°49′E / 26.79°N 82.82°E / 26.79; 82.82

References[edit]

↑ "Basti Lok Sabha Elections and Results 2014". www.elections.in. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
↑ "2014 General Election Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
↑ "2009 General Election Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

[1] "Basti Lok Sabha Elections and Results 2014". www.elections.in. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

[2] "2014 General Election Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

[3] "2009 General Election Result" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

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