Allahabad Lok Sabha constituency

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Allahabad
Lok Sabha constituency
Allahabad Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Allahabad Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region North India
State Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies Meja
Karachhana
Allahabad South
Bara
Koraon
Established1951–present
Total electors1716160 [1]
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year 2019

Allahabad is a Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency in the Prayagraj district of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Allahabad saw two MPs elected and became the prime minister. Lal Bahadur Shastri became the prime minister during 1964–1966. V. P. Singh was elected twice from this constituency and later went on to become the prime minister. [2] [3] [4]

Vidhan Sabha Segments

NoNameDistrictMemberParty
259 Meja Prayagraj Sandeep Singh Patel Samajwadi Party
260 Karachhana Piyush Ranjan Nishad Bharatiya Janata Party
263 Allahabad South Nand Gopal Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party
264 Bara (SC)Vachaspati Apna Dal
265 Koraon (SC)Rajmani Kol Bharatiya Janata Party

Members of Lok Sabha

YearMember [5] Party
1952 Sri Prakasa Indian National Congress
1952^ Purushottam Das Tandon
1957 Lal Bahadur Shastri
1962
1967 Hari Krishna Shastri
1971 Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
1977 Janeshwar Mishra Janata Party
1980 Vishwanath Pratap Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1980^Krishna Prakash Tiwari
1984 Amitabh Bachchan Indian National Congress
1988^ Vishwanath Pratap Singh Independent
1989 Janeshwar Mishra Janata Dal
1991 Saroj Dubey
1996 Murli Manohar Joshi Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
1999
2004 Rewati Raman Singh Samajwadi Party
2009
2014 Shyama Charan Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party
2019 Rita Bahuguna Joshi

^ denotes Bye-poll

Election results

2024 elections

2024 Indian general elections
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Neeraj Tripathi
INC Ujjwal Raman Singh
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Swing

2019 elections

2019 Indian general elections
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Rita Bahuguna Joshi 494,454 55.62 +20.43
SP Rajendra Singh Patel3,10,17934.89+6.65
INC Yogesh Shukla31,9533.59-7.90
CPI Giridhar Gopal Tripathi10,4031.17New
NOTA None of the Above 7,6250.86+0.45
Majority1,84,27520.73+13.78
Turnout 8,89,55351.83-1.67
BJP hold Swing +20.43

2014 elections

2014 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Shyama Charan Gupta 3,13,77235.19+24.08
SP Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh 2,51,76328.24-9.70
BSP Keshari Devi Patel 1,62,07318.18-13.46
INC Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi 1,02,45311.49+4.89
IND. Draupadi Devi8,3210.93+0.93
AAP Adarsh Shastri 6,4390.72+0.72
NOTA None of the Above 3,6240.41+0.41
Majority62,0096.95+0.61
Turnout 8,91,63553.50+10.09
BJP gain from SP Swing +24.08

2009 elections

2009 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh 209,43138.06+2.42
BSP Ashok Kumar Bajpai174,51131.72+14.72
BJP Yogesh Shukla60,98311.09-20.23
INC Shyam Krishna Pandey33,0276.73+0.55
AD Bihari Lal Sharma22,0864.01+0.14
Independent Hira Lal7,5371.37
Independent Abhay Srivastava5,9761.09
Independent Kusum Kumari4,2360.77
Independent Akbal Mohammd2,3580.43
Independent Narendra Kumar Tiwari2,3400.43
RMSPOm Prakash2,2530.41
NELU Sarfuddin2,0620.37
Majority34,9206.34+2.02
Turnout 5,50,19743.41
SP hold Swing

2004 elections

2004 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SP Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh 2,34,00835.64
BJP Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 2,05,62531.32
BSP R. K. Singh Patel 1,11,57617.00
INC Satya Prakash Malaviya 40,5456.18
AD Raj Karan Bind25,4263.87
Majority28,3834.32
Turnout 6,56,49842.13
SP gain from BJP Swing

1999 elections

1999 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 2,19,11433.79
SP Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh 1,48,78322.94
INC Dr. Rita Bahuguna Joshi 1,33,42820.57
BSP Ram Dular Singh Patel1,09,38316.87
AD Ram Prakash Singh Patel15,2312.35
Independent C. P. Srivastava10,4861.63
Independent Shiv Dutt Shukla4,0020.62
Majority70,33110.85
Turnout 6,48,55145.98
BJP hold Swing

1998 elections

1998 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 2,65,23239.70
SP Shyama Charan Gupta 2,21,94233.22
BSP Dr. K. P. Srivastava1,14,17917.09
INC Dal Bahadur Singh29,0924.35
AD Dr. Kailash Nath Singh Patel22,2103.32
Majority43,2906.48
Turnout 6,68,08347.40
BJP hold Swing

1996 elections

1996 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Murli Manohar Joshi 2,16,84442.71
JD Saroj Dubey 1,13,32122.32
BSP Ram Sewak Singh1,02,35220.16
INC Jagdish Narayan Mishra30,0075.91
Independent Vijay Shankar7,8271.54
Majority1,03,52320.39
Turnout 5,07,69536.48
BJP gain from JD Swing

1991 elections

1991 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD Saroj Dubey 1,14,89829.72
BJP Shyama Charan Gupta 1,09,70228.38
INC Anil Shastri 61,48815.91
BSP Jang Bahadur Singh Patel 56,27914.56
JP Moti Lal Kushwaha21,5495.57
Majority5,1961.34
Turnout 3,86,54939.27
JD hold Swing

1989 elections

1989 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD Janeshwar Mishra 1,78,50842.92
INC Kamala Bahuguna 1,39,56833.56
BSP Jang Bahadur Singh Patel 79,00419.00
Independent Rama Kant2,6900.65
Independent Shasharka Mishra2,1930.53
Majority38,9409.36
Turnout 4,15,89643.26
Independent gain from JD Swing

1988 bye-poll elections

By Election, 1988
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent V. P. Singh 2,02,99652.03
INC Sunil Shastri 92,24523.64
BSP Kanshi Ram 69,51717.82
Independent Hari Shankar2,0670.53
Independent L. Sharma1,9170.49
Majority1,10,75128.39
Turnout 3,90,091
Independent gain from INC Swing

1984 elections

1984 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Amitabh Bachchan 2,97,46168.21
LKD Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna 1,09,66625.15
Majority1,87,79543.06
Turnout 4,36,12056.08
INC hold Swing

1977 elections

1977 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JP Janeshwar Mishra 1,90,69757.71
INC Vishwanath Pratap Singh 1,00,70930.48
ABHM Om Prakash Nirala14,7614.47
Independent Kripal Singh7,3632.23
Independent Govind Mishra4,2971.30
Majority89,98827.23
Turnout 3,30,41952.85
JP gain from INC Swing

1962 elections

1962 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Lal Bahadur Shastri 1,37,32458.07
ABJS Ram Gopal Sand68,79129.09
Majority68,53328.98
Turnout 2,36,48853.01
INC hold Swing

1957 elections

1957 Indian general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Lal Bahadur Shastri 1,24,89658.41
PSP Radhey Shyam Pathak68,86432.21
Majority56,03226.20
Turnout 2,13,81451.50
INC hold Swing

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Lok Sabha
Preceded by Constituency represented by the prime minister
1964-1966
Succeeded by

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