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.

Assembly Constituencies

There are five assembly constituencies in Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:

Constituency number	Name of Constituency	Name of Member	Party
320	Campiarganj	Fatehbahadur Singh	NCP
321	Pipraich	Rajmati Devi	SP
322	Gorakhpur Urban	Radha Mohan Das Agarwal	BJP
323	Gorakhpur Rural	Vijay Bahadur Yadav	BJP
324	Sahjanwan	Rajendra Singh	BSP

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of the Member	Party Affiliation
First	1952	Sinhasan Singh + 3-4 others Multiple members elected from this seat in 1952.	Indian National Congress
Second	1957-62	Sinhasan Singh + Mahadeo Prasad
Third	1962-67	Sinhasan Singh	Indian National Congress
Fourth	1967-70	Mahant Digvijaynath	Independent
	1970	Mahant Avedyanath	Independent
Fifth	1971-77	Narsingh Narain Pandey - Defeated Avedhnath	Congress
Sixth	1977-80	Harikesh Bahadur	Janata Party
Seventh	1980-84	Harikesh Bahadur	Indian National Congress (Indira)
Eighth	1984-89	Madan Pandey - Defeated Harikesh Bahadur	Congress
Ninth	1989-90	Mahant Avedyanath	Hindu Mahasabha
Tenth	1991-96	Mahant Avedyanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
Eleventh	1996-98	Mahant Avedyanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
Twelfth	1998-99	Yogi Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
Thirteenth	1999–2004	Yogi Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
Fourteenth	2004-09	Yogi Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
Fifteenth	2009-14	Yogi Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sixteenth	2014-Incumbent	Yogi Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results

General Election, 2014: Gorakhpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mahant Adityanath	5,39,127	51.8	-2.1
	SP	Rajmati Nishad	2,26,344	21.8	+10.7
	BSP	Ram Bhual Nishad	1,76,412	17.0	-7.4
	INC	Astbhuja Prasad Tripathi	45,719	4.4	+0.4
	AAP	Radhe Mohan Misra	11,873	1.1
Majority			3,12,783	30.1	+0.7
Turnout			10,40,199	54.6
	BJP hold		Swing

Indian general elections, 2009: Gorakhpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath	4,03,156	53.85	+2.34
	BSP	Vinay Shankar Tiwari	1,82,885	24.43	+14.21
	SP	Manoj Tiwari	83,059	11.09	-19.61
	INC	Lalchand Nishad	30,262	4.04	-0.82
	Independent	Chhedilal	8,953	1.20	0
	Independent	Niranjan Prasad	6,519	0.87	0
	Independent	Govind	4,829	0.65	0
	Ambedkar Samaj Party	Aman	3,007	0.40	0
	Independent	Harishchandra	2,944	0.39	0
	AD	Divyashankar Nishad	2,353	0.31	-0.16
	Independent	Awdhesh Singh	2,232	0.30	0
Majority			2,20,271	29.42	+8.81
Turnout			7,48,617
	BJP hold		Swing

Percentage changes are based on numbers from the 1999 elections.

Indian general elections, 2004: Gorakhpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Yogi Adityanath	3,53,647	51.31	+21.52
	SP	Jamuna Prasad	2,11,608	30.70	+6.06
	BSP	Pradeep Kumar Nishad	70,449	10.22	-19.26
	INC	Shardendu Pandey	33,477	4.86	-8.59
	Independent	Ram Milan	8,785	1.27	0
	AD	Chandra Bhan Singh Patel	3,225	0.47	-1.05
	SBSP	Gopal Rajbhar	3,081	0.45	0
	Independent	Ram Kishum	2,716	0.39	0
	ABHM	Mahanth Ramdas Brahmchari	2,260	0.33	0
Majority			1,42,309	20.61	+20.32
Turnout			6,89,248	48.13	-2.16

See also

• Gorakhpur
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha