Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Ravi Kishan
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1952–present
Reservation	none
Assembly Constituencies	Caimpiyarganj ; Pipraich ; Gorakhpur Urban ; Gorakhpur Rural ; Sahajanwa

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Gorakhpur is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, India. The current member of Lok Sabha is Ravi Kishan, who has won the election as a BJP party candidate in 2019.

This constituency is considered a stronghold of Gorakhnath Math, three of whose presiding monks have been elected from it multiple times.

Vidhan Sabha Constituencies[edit]

There are five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments under this Lok Sabha constituency. These are:^[1]

Constituency number	Name of Constituency	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Name of Member	Party
320	Caimpiyarganj	None	Gorakhpur	Fateh Bahadur Singh	BJP
321	Pipraich	None	Gorakhpur	Mahendra Pal Singh	BJP
322	Gorakhpur Urban	None	Gorakhpur	Radha Mohan Das Agarwal	BJP
323	Gorakhpur Rural	None	Gorakhpur	Bipin Singh	BJP
324	Sahajanwa	None	Gorakhpur	Sheetal Pandey	BJP

Members of Lok Sabha[edit]

Year	Elected MP	Party
1952	Sinhasan Singh	Indian National Congress
1957	Sinhasan Singh
1957	Mahadeo Prasad
1962	Sinhasan Singh
1967	Mahant Digvijaynath (Died in 1969)	Independent / Hindu Maha Sabha
1970*	Mahant Avedyanath (Won bye-poll)	Independent
1971	Narsingh Narain Pandey	Indian National Congress
1977	Harikesh Bahadur	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Harikesh Bahadur	Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Madan Pandey	Indian National Congress
1989	Mahant Avedyanath	Hindu Maha Sabha
1991	Mahant Avedyanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Mahant Avedyanath
1998	Yogi Adityanath (Became Chief Minister in 2017)
1999
2004
2009
2014
2018*	Praveen Nishad (Won bye-poll)	Samajwadi Party
2019	Ravi Kishan	Bharatiya Janata Party

*By Election in 1970 & 2018.

Election Results[edit]

2019 Lok Sabha Elections[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ravindra Shukla (Ravi Kishan)	7,17,122	60.54	+14.01
	SP	Ram Nishad	4,15,458	35.07	-13.79
	INC	Madhusudan Tripathi	22,972	1.94	-0.08
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,688	0.65	-0.24
Majority			3,01,664	25.47	+23.14
Turnout			11,84,635	59.79	+12.00
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	+11.68

2018 Bye-poll[edit]

Bye-election, 2018: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Praveen Kumar Nishad	4,56,589	48.86	+27.10
	BJP	Upendra Dutt Shukla	4,34,788	46.53	-5.30
	INC	Dr. Surheeta Kareem	18,872	2.02	-2.38
	IND.	Sarvan Kumar Nishad	3,254	0.35	N/A
	BMP	Awadhesh Nishad	2,833	0.30	+0.11
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,331	0.89	+0.11
Majority			21,801	2.33	-27.74
Turnout			9,34,441	47.79	-6.84
	SP gain from BJP		Swing	-2.97

2014 Lok Sabha Elections[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath	5,39,127	51.83	-2.02
	SP	Rajmati Nishad	2,26,344	21.76	+10.67
	BSP	Ram Bhuwal Nishad	1,76,412	16.96	-7.47
	INC	Astbhuja Prasad Tripathi	45,719	4.40	+0.36
	AAP	Radhe Mohan Misra	11,873	1.14	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,153	0.78	N/A
Majority			3,12,783	30.07	+0.65
Turnout			10,40,199	54.63	+10.50
	BJP hold		Swing	-2.02

2009 Lok Sabha Elections[edit]

2009 Indian general elections: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath	4,03,156	53.85	+2.34
	BSP	Vinay Shankar Tiwari	1,82,885	24.43	+14.21
	SP	Manoj Tiwari	83,059	11.09	-19.61
	INC	Lalchand Nishad	30,262	4.04	-0.82
	Independent	Chhedilal	8,953	1.20	0
	Independent	Niranjan Prasad	6,519	0.87	0
	Independent	Govind	4,829	0.65	0
	Ambedkar Samaj Party	Aman	3,007	0.40	0
	Independent	Harishchandra	2,944	0.39	0
	AD	Divyashankar Nishad	2,353	0.31	-0.16
	Independent	Awdhesh Singh	2,232	0.30	0
Majority			2,20,271	29.42	+8.81
Turnout			7,48,617	44.13	-4.00
	BJP hold		Swing	+2.34

General Election, 2004: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath	3,53,647	51.31	+10.21
	SP	Jamuna Prasad	2,11,608	30.70	-9.27
	BSP	Pradeep Kumar Nishad	70,449	10.22	-4.21
	INC	Shardendu Pandey	33,477	4.86	+1.78
	Independent	Ram Milan	8,785	1.27	0
	AD	Chandra Bhan Singh Patel	3,225	0.47	0
	[[Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party\|Template:Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party/meta/shortname]]	Gopal Rajbhar	3,081	0.45	0
	Independent	Ram Kishum	2,716	0.39	0
	ABHM	Mahanth Ramdas Brahmchari	2,260	0.33	0
Majority			1,42,309	20.61	+19.48
Turnout			6,89,248	48.13	-3.45
	BJP hold		Swing	+10.21

1999 Lok Sabha Elections[edit]

General Election, 1999: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath	2,67,382	41.10
	SP	Jamuna Prasad Nishad	2,60,043	39.97
	BSP	D. P. Yadav	93,852	13.43
	INC	Dr. Jamal Ahmad	20,026	3.08
	[[Janata Dal (Secular)\|Template:Janata Dal (Secular)/meta/shortname]]	Bankey Lal	2,723	0.42
Majority			7,339	1.13
Turnout			6,50,545	51.58
	BJP hold		Swing

General Election, 1998: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath	2,68,428	42.62
	SP	Jamuna Prasad Nishad	2,42,222	38.46
	BSP	Prahlad Yadav	85,282	13.54
	INC	Harikesh Bahadur	22,621	3.59
	AD	Sant Lal Jaiswal	3,892	0.62
Majority			26,206	4.16
Turnout			6,29,765	50.53
	BJP hold		Swing

General Election, 1996: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Mahant Avedyanath	2,36,369	42.23
	SP	Virender Pratap Shahi	1,79,489	32.07
	BSP	Kedar Nath Singh	85,248	15.23
	INC	Harikesh Bahadur	14,549	2.60
	IND.	Manoj Kumar Singh	4,395	0.79
Majority			56,880	10.16
Turnout			5,59,700	45.69
	BJP hold		Swing

General Election, 1991: Gorakhpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Mahant Avedyanath	2,28,736	49.70
	JD	Sharda Prasad Rawat	1,37,377	29.85
	Independent	Narsingh Narayan Pandey	38,376	8.34
	JP	Deep Narain Yadav	32,346	7.03
	[[Lok Dal\|Template:Lok Dal/meta/shortname]]	Safatullah	6,766	1.47
Majority			91,359	19.85
Turnout			4,60,188	50.95
	BJP gain from HMS		Swing

1962 Lok Sabha Elections[edit]

Sinhasan Singh (INC) : 68,258 votes^[2]
Digvijai Nath (HMS) : 64,998 votes

References[edit]

↑ PC: AC-wise data of candidate 2009 Gorakhpur
↑ "1962 India General (3rd Lok Sabha) Elections Results". elections.in. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

External links[edit]

Gorakhpur lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

Coordinates: 26°46′N 83°23′E / 26.76°N 83.39°E / 26.76; 83.39

[1] PC: AC-wise data of candidate 2009 Gorakhpur

[2] "1962 India General (3rd Lok Sabha) Elections Results". elections.in. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

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