Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency

Lucknow
UP-35
Lucknow ; UP-35
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Lucknow West; Lucknow North; Lucknow East; Lucknow Central; Lucknow Cantt;
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Rajnath Singh; Union Minister of Defence
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Lalji Tandon BJP

Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. It is one of the two lok sabha constituencies that lies in the largest and capital city of the state, Lucknow.

Since 1991 the seat has been held by the BJP. Its best-known MP is former prime minister of India, 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[edit | edit source]

No	Name	District	Member
171	Lucknow West	Lucknow	Armaan Khan	SP	SP
172	Lucknow North		Neeraj Bora	BJP	BJP
173	Lucknow East		O. P. Srivastava
174	Lucknow Central		Ravidas Mehrotra	SP	SP
175	Lucknow Cantt.		Brajesh Pathak	BJP	BJP

Members of Parliament[edit | edit source]

Year	Member
1952	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	Indian National Congress
1955^	Sheorajvati Nehru
1957	Pulin Behari Banerji
1962	B. K. Dhaon
1967	Anand Narain Mulla	Independent
1971	Sheila Kaul	Indian National Congress
1977	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	Janata Party
1980	Sheila Kaul	Indian National Congress
1984	Sheila Kaul
1989	Mandhata Singh	Janata Dal
1991	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
1998
1999
2004
2009	Lalji Tandon
2014	Rajnath Singh
2019
2024

^ by-poll

BJP (9 terms) (47.36%)

INC (7 terms) (36.84%)

JD (1 terms) (5.26%)

JP (1 terms) (5.26%)

IND (1 terms) (5.26%)

Election results[edit | edit source]

2024 results[edit | edit source]

2024 Indian general elections: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	612,709	53.89	2.81
	SP	Ravidas Mehrotra	4,77,550	42.00	16.41
	BSP	Mohd Sarwar Malik	30,192	2.66	2.66
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,350	0.65	0.01
Majority			1,35,159	11.89	19.22
Turnout			11,36,892	52.34	2.38
	BJP hold		Swing

2019 results[edit | edit source]

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	0
	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[edit | edit source]

2014 Indian general elections: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	561,106	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[edit | edit source]

2009 Indian general elections: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Lal Ji Tandon	204,028	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	19,607	4.9	+1.25
Majority			40,901	7.00	−49.18
Turnout			6,14,058	37.49
	BJP hold		Swing

2004 results[edit | edit source]

2004 Indian general elections: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	324,714	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
Majority			2,18,375	37.74	+21.34
Turnout			5,78,556	35.28	−13.29
	BJP hold		Swing

1999 results[edit | edit source]

1999 Indian general election: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	362,709	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[edit | edit source]

1998 Indian general election: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	431,738	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[edit | edit source]

1996 Indian general election: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	394,865	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[edit | edit source]

1991 Indian general election: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	194,886	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[edit | edit source]

1989 Indian general election: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD	Mandhata Singh	110,433	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[edit | edit source]

1984 Indian general election: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sheila Kaul	169,260	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[edit | edit source]

1980 Indian general election: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC(I)	Sheila Kaul	123,231	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 JP		Swing

1977 results[edit | edit source]

1977 Indian general election: Lucknow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JP	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	242,362	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
	JP gain from INC		Swing

1971 results[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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 Gandhi	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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

By Election, 1955: 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[edit | edit source]

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
	INC win (new seat)

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Lok Sabha
Preceded by Gandhinagar	Constituency represented by the leader of the opposition 1993 – 1996	Succeeded by Berhampur
Preceded by Nandyal	Constituency represented by the prime minister 1996	Vacant until 1998 (Prime Minister in Rajya Sabha) Title next held by Lucknow
Preceded by Berhampur	Constituency represented by the leader of the opposition 1996 – 1997	Succeeded by Baramati
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

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