Lucknow (Lok Sabha constituency)

Lucknow
Lok Sabha Constituency
Current MP of Lucknow, Rajnath Singh
Incumbent	Rajnath Singh
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1952- Present
Reservation	None
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly Constituencies	Lucknow West Lucknow North Lucknow East Lucknow Central Lucknow Cantt.

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

Since 1991 the seat has been held by the BJP. Its best-known MP is Former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Vajpayee contested from this seat eight times. First time, he contested 1955 bypoll and came third. Then he came second in 1957 and 1962. After these 3 losses, he won the seat five consecutive times, in 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004.

Assembly Segments

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Winning Party (2017)	Number of electorates (2019)
171	Lucknow West	None	Lucknow	BJP	4,12,201
172	Lucknow North	None	Lucknow	BJP	4,24,848
173	Lucknow East	None	Lucknow	BJP	4,48,016
174	Lucknow Central	None	Lucknow	BJP	3,69,533
175	Lucknow Cantt.	None	Lucknow	BJP	3,85,769
Total:					20,40,367

Members of Parliament

Name		Portrait	Election Year	Political party
	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit		1952	Indian National Congress
	Sheorajvati Nehru		1955*
	Pulin Behari Banerji		1957
	B. K. Dhaon		1962
	Anand Narain Mulla		1967	Independent
	Sheila Kaul		1971	Indian National Congress
	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna		1977	Bharatiya Lok Dal
	Sheila Kaul		1980	Indian National Congress
			1984
	Mandhata Singh		1989	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee		1991	Bharatiya Janata Party
			1996
			1998
			1999
			2004
	Lal Ji Tandon		2009
	Rajnath Singh		2014
			2019

• *By Election in 1955 due to resignation of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

Election results

2019 results

2019 Indian general elections: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	633,026	56.70	+2.43
	SP	Poonam Sinha	2,85,724	25.59	+20.10
	INC	Acharya Pramod Krishnam	1,80,011	16.12	−11.77
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,416	0.66	+0.21
Majority			3,47,302	31.11	+4.73
Turnout			11,16,445	54.72	+1.70
	BJP hold		Swing	+2.43

2014 results

2014 Indian general elections: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	5,61,106	54.27	+19.34
	INC	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	2,88,357	27.89	−0.04
	BSP	Nakul Dubey	64,449	6.23	−16.65
	SP	Abhishek Mishra	56,771	5.49	−5.03
	AAP	Syed Jaaved Ahmed Jaaferi	41,429	4.01	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,696	0.45	+0.45
Majority			2,72,749	26.38	+19.38
Turnout			10,33,883	53.02	+17.69
	BJP hold		Swing	+19.34

2009 results

2009 Indian general elections: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Lal Ji Tandon	2,04,028	34.93	−21.19
	INC	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	1,63,127	27.93	+27.93
	BSP	Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta	1,33,610	22.88	+13.62
	SP	Nafisa Ali Sodhi	61,457	10.52	−7.86
	AITC	Rajesh Kumar Pandey	20,130	4.97
	Independent	Amresh Mishra	3,164	0.37
	Swarajya Party Of India	Anupam Mishra	1,230	0.21
	Independent	Rajiv Ranjan Tiwari	1,224	0.21
Majority			40,901	7.00	−49.18
Turnout			6,14,058	37.49
	BJP hold		Swing

2004 results

2004 Indian general elections: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	3,24,714	56.12	+21.19
	SP	Dr. Madhu Gupta	1,06,339	18.38	+7.92
	Independent	Ram Boolchand Jethmalani	57,685	9.97	N/A
	BSP	Nasir Ali Siddiqui	53,566	9.26	−7.86
	Samata Party	Krishna Pal	6,928	1.20
	Independent	Sheikh Ajij Ahmad Dyer	4,051	0.70
	Independent	Salahuddin	3,965	0.60
	AD	Arun Kumar Patel	2,804	0.48
	Independent	Ajay Chaturvedi	2,110	0.36
	Independent	Domai	1,203	0.21
	Independent	Ajay Kumar Pandey	1,043	0.18
	Independent	D.P.Pal	1,026	0.18
	Independent	Jaffar Ali	1,018	0.18
	JP	Nand Kumar Rajpoot	981	0.17
	Independent	Mohd. Kamran Siddiqui	918	0.16
	RKSP	Askari Shakti	885	0.15
	IJP	Dr. Vijay Narayan Pal	864	0.15
	Independent	Khem Singh Arya	829	0.14
	Independent	Pradeep Kumar Rawat	753	0.13
	Independent	Faguram	671	0.12
	Independent	Neelam Singh	639	0.11
Majority			2,18,375	37.74	+21.34
Turnout			5,78,556	35.28	−13.29
	BJP hold		Swing

1999 results

1999 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	3,62,709	48.11
	INC	Dr. Karan Singh	2,39,085	31.71
	SP	Bhagwati Singh	78,826	10.46
	BSP	Ijaharul Haque	43,948	5.83
	Independent	Dr. Vijay Agarwal	8,527	1.13
Majority			1,23,624	16.40
Turnout			7,53,943	48.57
	BJP hold		Swing

1998 results

1998 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	4,31,738	57.82
	SP	Muzaffar Ali	2,15,475	28.86
	BSP	Dr. Dau Ji Gupta	56,887	7.62
	INC	Ranjeet Singh	38,636	5.17
	Independent	Kumari Katori Devi	1,099	0.15
Majority			2,16,263	28.96
Turnout			7,46,669	49.35
	BJP hold		Swing

1996 results

1996 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	3,94,865	52.25
	SP	Raj Babbar	2,76,194	36.55
	BSP	Ved Prakash Grover	42,993	5.69
	INC	Om Pathak	19,042	2.42
	Independent	Ramdev	3,639	0.48
Majority			1,18,671	15.70
Turnout			7,55,746	50.78
	BJP hold		Swing

1991 results

1991 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	1,94,886	50.90
	INC	Ranjeet Singh	77,583	20.26
	JP	Heeru Saxena	59,385	15.51
	JD	Mandhata Singh	22,357	5.84
	BSP	Balbir Singh Saluja	13,728	3.59
Majority			1,17,303	30.64
Turnout			3,82,877	32.23
	BJP gain from JD		Swing	16.82

1989 results

1989 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Mandhata Singh	1,10,433	34.08
	INC	Dau Ji	95,137	29.36
	Independent	Balraj Madhok	73,839	22.78
	BSP	Jagmohan Singh Verma	20,393	6.29
Majority			15,614	4.72
Turnout			3,24,073	28.65
	JD gain from INC		Swing

1984 results

1984 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sheila Kaul	1,69,260	55.67
	LKD	Mohammad Yunus Saleem	47,140	15.50
	BJP	Lal Ji Tandon	36,973	12.16
	JP	D. P. Bora	15,783	6.29
Majority			1,22,120	40.17
Turnout			3,04,058	40.30
	INC hold		Swing

1980 results

1980 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC(I)	Sheila Kaul	1,23,231	47.65
	JP	Mahmood Butt	92,849	35.90
	INC(U)	Triloki Singh	17,163	6.64
Majority			30,382	11.75
Turnout			2,58,620	37.63
	Indian National Congress (Indira) gain from Bharatiya Lok Dal		Swing

1977 results

1977 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BLD	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	2,42,362	72.99
	INC	Sheila Kaul	77,017	23.19
	Independent	Sarju Prasad	5,534	1.67
Majority			1,65,345	49.80
Turnout			3,32,049	53.52
	Bharatiya Lok Dal gain from INC		Swing

1971 results

1971 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sheila Kaul	1,71,019	71.61
	ABJS	Purushottam Das Kapoor	51,818	21.70
	BKD	D. P. Bora	12,039	5.04
Majority			1,19,201	49.91
Turnout			2,38,808	46.49
	INC gain from Independent		Swing

1967 results

1967 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Anand Narain Mulla	92,535	36.55
	INC	V. R. Mohan	71,563	28.27
	ABJS	R. C. Sharma	60,291	23.81
Majority			20,972	8.28
Turnout			2,53,175	27.63
	Independent gain from INC		Swing

1962 results

1962 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	B. K. Dhaon	1,16,637	50.45
	ABJS	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	86,620	37.47
	Independent	Jagdish Ghandi	14,774	6.39
	Socialist	M. A. Haleem	6,928	3.00
	ABHM	Radhey Shyam	4,356	1.88
Majority			30,017	12.98
Turnout			2,38,485	58.49
	INC hold		Swing

1957 results

1957 Indian general election: Lucknow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Pulin Behari Banerji	69,519	40.75
	ABJS	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	57,034	33.44
	CPI	Fazal Abbas Kazmi	28,542	16.73
Majority			12,485	7.31
Turnout			1,70,579	45.12
	INC hold		Swing

1955 bypoll results

By Election, 1952: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sheorajvati Nehru	49,324	41.83
	PSP	Tirloki Singh	34,578	29.33
	ABJS	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	33,986	28.82
Majority			14,746	12.50
Turnout			1,17,888	33.35
	INC hold		Swing

1951-52 results

General Election, 1951: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	1,02,764	69.17
	ABJS	Har Govind Dayal	35,112	23.63
	ABRRP	Gaya Prasad Shukla	6,021	4.05
	Independent	Nathu Ram	4,672	3.14
Majority			67,652	45.54
Turnout			1,48,569	42.03

See also

• Lucknow district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Lucknow (Mayoral Constituency)
• Lucknow (Division Graduates Constituency)
• Lucknow Rural (Lok Sabha constituency)

External links

• http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/035_PC_Statistics_English.aspx
• http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/171_AC_Statistics_English.aspx
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• http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/173_AC_Statistics_English.aspx
• http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/174_AC_Statistics_English.aspx
• http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/175_AC_Statistics_English.aspx

Lok Sabha
Preceded by Nandyal	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1996	Vacant until 1998 (Prime Minister in Rajya Sabha) Title next held by Lucknow
Vacant since 1996 (Prime Minister in Rajya Sabha) Title last held by Lucknow	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1998-2004	Vacant until 2014 (Prime Minister in Rajya Sabha) Title next held by Varanasi