Ghatampur (Lok Sabha constituency)

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

Assembly Segments[edit]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Number of electorates (2007)
269	Jahanabad	None	Fatehpur	2,23,982
278	Ghatampur	None	Kanpur Nagar	2,53,756
279	Bhognipur	SC	Kanpur Dehat	2,52,658
280	Rajpur	None	Kanpur Dehat	2,49,952
284	Derapur	None	Kanpur Dehat	2,50,986
Total:				12,31,334

Year	Winner	Party
1957	Tula Ram	Indian National Congress
1962	Tula Ram	Indian National Congress
1967	Tula Ram	Indian National Congress
1971	Tula Ram	Indian National Congress
1977	Jwala Prasad Kureel	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Ashkaran Sankhwar	Janata Party (Secular)
1984	Ashkaran Sankhwar	Indian National Congress (I)
1989	Keshari Lal	Janata Dal
1991	Keshari Lal	Janata Dal
1996	Kamal Rani	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Kamal Rani	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Pyare Lal Sankhwar	Bahujan Samaj Party
2004	Radhey Shyam Kori	Samajwadi Party
Constituency delimited in 2008; its area spread among new seats.

2004 Indian general election: Ghatampur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Radhey Shyam Kori	1,60,117	31.72
	BSP	Pyare Lal Sankhwar	1,49,805	29.67
	BJP	Kamal Rani	1,22,845	24.33
	AD	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	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	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	Babu Lal	16,141	3.64
Majority			11,151	2.52
Turnout			4,43,075	40.76
	BJP gain from JD		Swing