Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Gorakhpur is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Gorakhpur, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.
In the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections, the constituency had 1,432,002 eligible voters, of whom 48.13% exercised their franchise. There were nine candidates. Election was conducted at 1227 polling stations, and 689,248 valid votes were counted. Adityanath Yogi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was elected by a margin of 142,309 votes.
Members of Parliament
- 1952: Sinhasan Singh, Indian National Congress
- 1957: Sinhasan Singh, Indian National Congress
- 1962: Sinhasan Singh, Indian National Congress
- 1967: Mahant Divijai Nath, Hindu Mahasabha
- 1971: Narsingh Narain Pandey, Indian National Congress
- 1977: Harikesh Bahadur, Indian National Congress
- 1980: Harikesh Bahadur, Indian National Congress
- 1984: Madan Pandey, Indian National Congress
- 1989: Mahant Avedyanath, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1991: Mahant Avedyanath, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1996: Mahant Avedyanath, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1998: Adityanath Yogi, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1999: Adityanath Yogi, Bharatiya Janata Party margin: 0.29%
- 2004: Adityanath Yogi, Bharatiya Janata Party margin: 20.61%
- 2009: Adityanath Yogi, Bharatiya Janata Party
Election results
Percentage changes are based on numbers from the 1999 elections.
| Indian general elections, 2004: Gorakhpur |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
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BJP |
Adityanath Yogi |
353,647 |
51.31 |
+21.52 |
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Samajwadi Party |
Jamuna Prasad |
211,608 |
30.70 |
+6.06 |
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BSP |
Pradeep Kumar Nishad |
70,449 |
10.22 |
-19.26 |
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Congress |
Shardendu Pandey |
33,477 |
4.86 |
-8.59 |
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Independent |
Ram Milan |
8,785 |
1.27 |
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AD |
Chandra Bhan Singh Patel |
3,225 |
0.47 |
-1.05 |
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SBSP |
Gopal Rajbhar |
3,081 |
0.45 |
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Independent |
Ram Kishum |
2,716 |
0.39 |
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ABHM |
Mahanth Ramdas Brahmchari |
2,260 |
0.33 |
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| Majority |
142,309 |
20.61 |
+20.32 |
| Turnout |
689,248 |
48.13 |
-2.16 |
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- Cities and towns in Deoria district
- Cities and towns in Gorakhpur district
- Cities and towns in Kushinagar district
- Cities and towns in Maharajganj district
- Villages in Deoria district
- Villages in Gorakhpur district
- Villages in Maharajganj district
- People from Deoria
- People from Gorakhpur
- People from Kushinagar
- People from Maharajganj
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| Other Divisions |
- Agra
- Aligarh
- Allahabad
- Azamgarh
- Bareilly
- Basti
- Chitrakoot
- Devipatan
- Faizabad
- Jhansi
- Kanpur
- Lucknow
- Meerut
- Mirzapur
- Moradabad
- Saharanpur
- Varanasi
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