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Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency

Kanpur
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Lok Sabha constituency
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Interactive Map Outlining Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
Assembly constituenciesGovind Nagar
Sisamau
Arya Nagar
Kidwai Nagar
Kanpur Cantt.
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Ramesh Awasthi
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2024

Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The constituency covers almost one-fourth of the area of Kanpur city and is hundred percent urban. The rest of the city comes under Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency and the outgrowths across Ganga river are the part of Unnao Lok Sabha constituency. Some suburbs of the city like Chobepur and parts of Mandhana lie in Misrikh Lok Sabha constituency. [1][2]

Assembly segments

No Name District Member Party 2024 Lead
212 Govind Nagar Kanpur Nagar Surendra Maithani Bharatiya Janata Party Bharatiya Janata Party
213 Sishamau Naseem Solanki Samajwadi Party Indian National Congress
214 Arya Nagar Amitabh Bajpai Samajwadi Party Indian National Congress
215 Kidwai Nagar Mahesh Trivedi Bharatiya Janata Party Bharatiya Janata Party
216 Kanpur Cantt. Mohammad Hassan Roomi Samajwadi Party Indian National Congress

Members of Parliament

Year Name Party
1952 Harihar Nath Shastri Indian National Congress
Shiv Narayan Tandon
Raja Ram Shastri Praja Socialist Party
1957 S. M. Banerjee Independent politician
1962
1967
1971
1977 Manohar Lal Janata Party
1980 Arif Mohammed Khan Indian National Congress
1984 Naresh Chandra Chaturvedi
1989 Subhashini Ali Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991 Jagat Vir Singh Drona Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
1998
1999 Sriprakash Jaiswal Indian National Congress
2004
2009
2014 Murli Manohar Joshi Bharatiya Janata Party
2019 Satyadev Pachauri
2024 Ramesh Awasthi

Election results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ramesh Awasthi 443,055 49.93 Decrease5.70
INC Alok Misra 422,087 47.56 Increase10.43
BSP Kuldeep Bhadauria 12,032 1.36 Increase1.36
NOTA None of the Above 4,117 0.46 Decrease0.02
Majority 20,968 2.37 Decrease16.13
Turnout 887,396 53.05 Increase1.43
BJP hold Swing Decrease5.70

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Kanpur[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Satyadev Pachauri 468,937 55.63 −1.22
INC Sriprakash Jaiswal 3,13,003 37.13 +6.98
SP Ram Kumar 48,275 5.73 −3.72
SJP Alok Kumar 1,885 0.22 New
BSCP Poonam Shukla 1,130 0.13 New
NOTA None of the Above 4,057 0.48 +0.21
Majority 1,55,934 18.50 −8.20
Turnout 8,42,994 51.62 −0.21
BJP hold Swing -1.22

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Kanpur[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 474,712 56.85 Increase18.62
INC Sriprakash Jaiswal 251,766 30.15 Decrease11.77
BSP Saleem Ahmad 53,218 6.37 Decrease3.06
SP Surendra Mohan Agarwal 25,723 3.08 Decrease3.73
AAP Mahmood Hussain Rehmani 11,925 1.43 Increase1.43
Independent Kishore Bajpai 3,005 0.36 Increase0.36
Independent Prem Chandra Pandey 2,350 0.28 Increase0.28
NOTA None of the Above 2,278 0.27 Increase0.27
Majority 222,946 26.70 Increase23.01
Turnout 835,079 51.83 Increase14.93
BJP gain from INC Swing Increase14.93

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Sriprakash Jaiswal 2,14,988 41.92 +7.80
BJP Satish Mahana 1,96,082 38.23 +5.02
BSP Sukhda Mishra 48,374 9.43 +4.91
SP Surendra Mohan Agarwal 34,919 6.81 −18.95
Independent Ahamed Hussain 3,728 0.73 0
BPD Omendra Bharat 3,237 0.63 0
Independent Maya Kaushal 2,503 0.49 0
Independent Mohammad Isha 2,394 0.47 0
Independent Nisha 1,463 0.29 0
Independent V. N. Awasthi 1,274 0.25 0
Majority 18,906 3.69 +2.78
Turnout 5,12,878 36.90 −6.45
INC hold Swing +2.78

2004

2004 Indian general elections: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Shriprakash Jaiswal 2,11,109 34.12 −12.07
BJP Satya Dev Pachauri 2,05,471 33.21 −7.56
SP Haji Mushtaq Solanki 1,59,361 25.76 +19.36
BSP Anubhav 27,962 4.52 +0.37
CPI(M) Subhashini Ali 4,558 0.74
Independent Mohd. Hanim (Kinner Ramkali) 1,975 0.32
ABHM Chandra Prakash 1,607 0.26
Independent Saroj Rahi 1,070 0.17
AD Sunil Patel 957 0.15
Independent Ravi Shankar Balmiki 945 0.15
Independent Jagannath Mistri 822 0.13
Independent Chandramani 721 0.12
Independent Ram Ratan 644 0.10
Independent Ajeet Mohan 615 0.10
RLD Manohar Lal 477 0.08
Independent Sanjeev Pandey 427 0.07
Majority 5,638 0.91
Turnout 6,18,721 43.35
INC hold Swing -12.07

1999

1999 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Shriprakash Jaiswal 2,93,610 46.19
BJP Jagat Vir Singh Drona 2,59,151 40.77
SP Shyam Lal Gupta 40,690 6.40
BSP Man Singh Bagga 26,376 4.15
Independent Santosh Kumar 3,638 0.49
Independent S. M. Tariq Anwar 3,275 0.47
Majority 34,459 5.42
Turnout 6,35,624 44.83
INC gain from BJP Swing

1998

1998 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Jagat Vir Singh Drona 3,35,996 49.39
SP Surendra Mohan Agarwal 1,99,987 29.40
INC Sriprakash Jaiswal 90,274 13.27
BSP Pawan Kumar Gupta 49,474 7.27
Independent Iqbal Siddiqui 812 0.12
Majority 1,36,009 19.99
Turnout 6,80,263 48.52
BJP hold Swing

1996

1996 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Jagat Vir Singh Drona 2,97,550 52.19
CPI(M) Subhashini Ali 1,46,460 25.69
BSP Sharfuddin Ahmad 51,333 9.00
INC Bhudhar Narayan Mishra 47,403 8.31
Independent Satya Narain 2,621 0.46
Majority 1,51,090 26.50
Turnout 5,70,127 41.53
BJP hold Swing

1991

1991 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Jagat Vir Singh Drona 1,93,275 47.97
INC Ram Narayan Pathak 79,654 19.77
CPI(M) Subhashini Ali 70,912 17.60
JP Tasneem Ashraf 30,672 7.61
BSP Ram Nath 15,874 3.94
LKD Ram Singh Yadav 2,035 0.51
Majority 1,13,621 28.20
Turnout 4,02,868 37.71
BJP gain from CPI(M) Swing

1989

1989 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Subhashini Ali 1,74,438 41.06
BJP Jagat Vir Singh Drona 1,17,851 27.74
INC Naresh Chandra Chaturvedi 98,112 23.10
BSP Sharif 11,219 2.64
Independent Guru Rajkumar Singh Ambedkar 4,159 0.98
Majority 56,587 13.32
Turnout 4,24,808 40.57
CPI(M) gain from INC Swing

1984

1984 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Naresh Chandra Chaturvedi 2,14,160 56.92
JP Syed Shahabuddin 76,791 20.41
BJP Somnath Shukla 37,451 9.95
LKD Shyam Mishra 23,439 6.23
Independent Ambika Prasad Sultaniya 7,947 2.11
Majority 1,37,369 36.51
Turnout 3,76,216 55.94
INC hold Swing

1980

1980 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC(I) Arif Mohammad Khan 1,63,230 45.49
JP Maqbool Husain Kureshi 88,049 24.54
Independent Bhagwati Prasad Dixit 51,717 14.41
JP(S) Manohar Lal 42,795 11.93
Independent Om Prakash 2,385 0.66
Majority 75,181 20.95
Turnout 3,58,848 50.74
INC(I) gain from JP Swing

1977

1977 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JP Manohar Lal 2,69,629 70.96
INC Naresh Chandra Chaturvedi 95,340 25.09
Independent Bhagwati Prasad Dixit 6,799 1.79
Independent S. M. Banerjee 5,035 1.33
Independent Ram Chandra Sathi 1,677 0.44
Majority 1,74,289 45.87
Turnout 3,83,842 58.37
JP gain from Independent Swing

1971

1971 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent S. M. Banerjee 1,48,845 60.93
ABJS Babu Ram Shukla 59,646 24.42
Independent Mohammad Waseem 24,776 10.14
CPI(M) Sheo Varma 3,123 1.28
Independent Lakhan Lal 1,334 0.55
Majority 89,199 36.51
Turnout 2,44,289 48.27
Independent hold Swing

1967

1967 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent S. M. Banerjee 77,882 32.34
INC G. Dutt 71,365 29.63
ABJS Babu Ram Shukla 46,899 19.47
Independent M. Ali 14,299 5.94
CPI(M) Ram Asrey 13,389 5.56
Majority 6,517 2.71
Turnout 2,40,823 51.83
Independent hold Swing

1962

1962 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent S. M. Banerjee 1,39,039 53.21
INC Bejoy Kumar Sinha 80,934 30.97
ABJS Babu Ram Shukla 20,571 7.87
PSP Vimal Mehrotra 6,526 2.50
Independent Moti Lal 4,039 1.55
Majority 58,105 22.24
Turnout 2,71,823 56.05
Independent hold Swing

1957

1957 Indian general election: Kanpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent S. M. Banerjee 87,612 49.49
INC Surya Prasad Awasthi 70,988 40.10
Majority 16,624 9.39
Turnout 1,77,016 42.28
Independent gain from PSP Swing

1952 By-election

By Election, 1952: Kanpur Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PSP Prof. Raja Ram Shastri 65,739 55.25
INC Chail Behari Dixit Kantak 51,951 43.67
Independent Sita Ram 1,284 1.08
Majority 13,788 11.58
Turnout 1,18,974 28.94
PSP gain from INC Swing

1952 By-election

By Election, 1952: Kanpur Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Shiv Narayan Tandon 60,087 42.93
PSP Prof. Raja Ram Shastri 45,300 32.36
CPI Sant Singh Yusuf 31,019 22.16
RRP N. Upadhyay 3,561 2.54
Majority 14,787 10.57
Turnout 1,39,967 35.07
INC hold Swing

1952

1952 Indian general election: Kanpur Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Harihar Nath Shastri 88,812 64.91
Socialist Ramau Shanker Avasthi 17,635 12.89
Independent Chail Behari Dixit Kantak 14,861 10.86
KMPP Ganga Sahai Chaubey 4,476 3.27
Independent Barhma Nand Misra 3,423 2.50
Independent Ram Ji Das 3,281 2.40
Independent Sohan Lal Shenghavia 3,079 2.25
Independent Gajpat Rai 1,253 0.92
Majority 71,177 52.02
Turnout 1,36,821 34.60
INC win (new seat)

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