Phulpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Phulpur
Phulpur
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Keshari Devi Patel
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1951-present
Reservation	None
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly Constituencies	Phaphamau; Soraon; Phulpur; Allahabad West; Allahabad North

Phulpur Lok Sabha seat, also spelled 'Phoolpur', is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. It lies in Prayagraj district. Phulpur is a historic constituency and two Indian Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and V P Singh have been elected from this constituency.^[1] The first Prime Minister of India of Jawaharlal Nehru died in office in 1964 while holding this seat. Hence it (फूलपुर) is also called "Nehru's constituency".^[2]^[3]

Vidhan Sabha Segments[edit | edit source]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Number of electorates (2019)
254	Phaphamau	None	Prayagraj	3,62,406
255	Soraon	SC	Prayagraj	3,73,564
256	Phulpur	None	Prayagraj	3,94,018
261	Allahabad West	None	Prayagraj	4,49,224
262	Allahabad North	None	Prayagraj	4,27,016
Total:				20,06,228

Members of Lok Sabha[edit | edit source]

Year	Winner	Party
1952	Jawahar Lal Nehru	Indian National Congress
1952	Masuriya Din (2 candidates elected from this seat in 1952 under official name : Allahbad East cum Jaunpur West Dist) ^[4]	Indian National Congress
1957	Jawahar Lal Nehru	Indian National Congress
1957	Masuriya Din (2 candidates elected from Phulpur seat in 1957, too) ^[5]	Indian National Congress
1962	Jawahar Lal Nehru (Died in 1964)	Indian National Congress
1964^	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Nehru's younger sister (bye-poll)	Indian National Congress
1967	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Resigned in 1969)	Indian National Congress
1969^	Janeshwar Mishra (bye-poll)	Samyukta Socialist Party
1971	Vishwanath Pratap Singh	Indian National Congress
1977	Kamala Bahuguna	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	B. D. Singh	Janata Party (Secular)
1984	Ram Pujan Patel	Indian National Congress
1989	Ram Pujan Patel	Janata Dal/Samajwadi Party
1991	Ram Pujan Patel	Janata Dal/Samajwadi Party
1996	Jang Bahadur Singh Patel	Samajwadi Party
1998	Jang Bahadur Singh Patel	Samajwadi Party
1999	Dharmraj Patel	Samajwadi Party
2004	Ateeq Ahmed	Samajwadi Party
2009	Kapil Muni Karwariya	Bahujan Samaj Party
2014	Keshav Prasad Maurya (Became Deputy CM and Member of Legislative Assembly in 2017)	Bharatiya Janata Party
2018^	Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel (bye-poll)	Samajwadi Party
2019	Keshari Devi Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party

^ by poll

Election Results[edit | edit source]

General Election 2019[edit | edit source]

2019 Indian general elections: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Keshari Devi Patel	5,44,701	55.68	+16.87
	SP	Pandhari Yadav	3,72,733	38.10	−8.85
	INC	Pankaj Patel	32,761	3.35	+0.70
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,882	0.81	+0.44
Margin of victory			1,71,968	17.58	+9.44
Turnout			9,79,077	48.70	+11.55
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	+8.73

Bye-election 2018[edit | edit source]

Bye-election, 2018: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel	3,42,922	46.95	+26.62
	BJP	Kaushalendra Singh Patel	2,83,462	38.81	−13.63
	IND.	Ateeq Ahmed	48,094	6.58	N/A
	INC	Manish Mishra	19,353	2.65	−3.40
	IND.	Dr. Neeraj	4,276	0.59	+0.36
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,724	0.37	−0.51
Margin of victory			59,460	8.14	-23.97
Turnout			7,30,612	37.15	−13.05
	SP gain from BJP		Swing	-5.49

General Election 2014[edit | edit source]

2014 Indian general elections: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Keshav Prasad Maurya	5,03,564	52.44	+44.32
	SP	Dharam Raj Singh Patel	1,95,256	20.33	−7.39
	BSP	Kapil Muni Karwariya	1,63,710	17.05	−13.31
	INC	Mohammad Kaif	58,127	6.05	−6.20
	AAP	Shimala Shri	7,384	0.77	+0.77
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,424	0.88	+0.88
Margin of victory			3,08,308	32.11	+29.47
Turnout			9,60,419	50.20	+11.51
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing	+22.08

General Election 2009[edit | edit source]

2009 Indian general elections: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BSP	Kapil Muni Karwariya	1,67,542	30.36
	SP	Shyama Charan Gupta	1,52,964	27.72
	Independent	Dr. Sone Lal Patel	76,699	13.90
	INC	Dharmaraj Singh Patel	67,623	12.25
	BJP	Karan Singh Patel	44,828	8.12
Majority			14,578	2.64
Turnout			5,51,917	38.69
	BSP gain from SP		Swing

General Election 1962[edit | edit source]

1962 Indian general election: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Jawahar Lal Nehru	1,18,931	61.62
	Socialist	Ram Manohar Lohia	54,360	28.17
Margin of victory			64,571	33.45
Turnout			1,92,994	47.15
	INC hold		Swing

Bye-poll 1964[edit | edit source]

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Congress) : 110549 votes
S.JAISWAL (SSP) : 52,529

General elections 1957[edit | edit source]

Two members were elected from this seat in 1957.

1957 Indian general election: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Jawahar Lal Nehru (Elected)	2,27,447	36.87
	INC	Masuriya Din (Elected)	1,98,431	32.17
Margin of victory			29,018	4.70
Turnout			6,16,862	77.24
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1952[edit | edit source]

1952 Indian general election: Allahabad East-Jaunpur West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Jawahar Lal Nehru (Elected)	2,33,571	38.73
	INC	Masuriya Din (Elected)	1,81,700	30.13
	KMPP	Banshi Lal	59,642	9.89
	Independent	Prabhudutt Brahmachari	56,718	9.41
	Independent	K. K. Chatterjee	27,392	4.54
	ABHM	Thate Laxman Ganesh	25,870	4.29
	RSP	Badri Prasad	18,129	3.01
Margin of victory			61,871	8.60
Turnout			6,03,022	40.21
	INC win (new seat)

Notes[edit | edit source]

↑ "Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Phulpur gave country 2 Prime Ministers, got only IFFCO as trophy". Kenneth John. Hindustan Times. 12 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
↑ "Phulpur bypoll: A Nehru constituency once, it is Patel versus Patel today". India Today. 14 March 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
↑ "'Modi vs rest' in Phulpur, once Nehru's constituency". The Economic Times. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
↑ "1951 India General (1st Lok Sabha) Elections Results".
↑ "1957 India General (2nd Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

External links[edit | edit source]

Phulpur lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

Lok Sabha
New title	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1952-1964	Succeeded by Sabarkantha

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[1] "Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Phulpur gave country 2 Prime Ministers, got only IFFCO as trophy". Kenneth John. Hindustan Times. 12 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.

[2] "Phulpur bypoll: A Nehru constituency once, it is Patel versus Patel today". India Today. 14 March 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2019.

[3] "'Modi vs rest' in Phulpur, once Nehru's constituency". The Economic Times. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.

[4] "1951 India General (1st Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

[5] "1957 India General (2nd Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

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