Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency

Phulpur
Phulpur
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Phaphamau; Soraon; Phulpur; Allahabad West; Allahabad North
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	17th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Keshari Devi Patel
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019

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]

No	Name	District	Member
254	Phaphamau	Prayagraj	Guruprasad Maurya	Bharatiya Janata Party
255	Soraon (SC)		Geeta Shastri	Samajwadi Party
256	Phulpur		Praveen Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party
261	Allahabad West		Sidharth Nath Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
262	Allahabad North		Harshvardhan Bajpai	Bharatiya Janata Party

Members of Parliament[edit]

Year	Member^[4]
1952	Jawaharlal Nehru [a]	Indian National Congress
1952	Masuriya Din^[5]
1957	Jawaharlal Nehru [b]
1957	Masuriya Din^[6]
1962	Jawaharlal Nehru
1964^	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
1967	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
1969^	Janeshwar Mishra	Samyukta Socialist Party
1971	Vishwanath Pratap Singh	Indian National Congress
1977	Kamala Bahuguna	Janata Party
1980	B. D. Singh	Janata Party (Secular)
1984	Ram Pujan Patel	Indian National Congress
1989		Janata Dal
1991		Janata Dal
1996	Jang Bahadur Patel	Samajwadi Party
1998	Jang Bahadur Patel
1999	Dharmraj Patel
2004	Atique Ahmed
2009	Kapil Muni Karwariya	Bahujan Samaj Party
2014	Keshav Prasad Maurya	Bharatiya Janata Party
2018^	Nagendra Pratap Patel	Samajwadi Party
2019	Keshari Devi Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party

^ by poll

Election results[edit]

2019[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Keshari Devi Patel	544,701	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

2018 by-election[edit]

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.	Atiq 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]

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]

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

1964 by-election[edit]

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Indian National Congress) : 1,10,549 votes
S. Jaiswal (Samyukta Socialist Party) : 52,529 votes

General election 1962[edit]

1962 Indian general election: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Jawaharlal 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

General elections 1957[edit]

Two members were elected from this seat in 1957.

1957 Indian general election: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Jawaharlal 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]

1952 Indian general election: Allahabad East-Jaunpur West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Jawaharlal 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]

^ 2 member constituency
^ 2 member constituency

References[edit]

^ "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.
^ "Phulpur (Uttar Pradesh) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 -Phulpur Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.
^ "1951 India General (1st Lok Sabha) Elections Results".
^ "1957 India General (2nd Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

External links[edit]

Phulpur lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

Lok Sabha
New title	Constituency represented by the prime minister 1952-1964	Succeeded by Sabarkantha

25°33′N 82°05′E / 25.55°N 82.09°E / 25.55; 82.09

[5] 2 member constituency

[7] 2 member constituency

[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] "Phulpur (Uttar Pradesh) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 -Phulpur Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.

[6] "1951 India General (1st Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

[8] "1957 India General (2nd Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

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General	Allahabad High Court University of Allahabad Doab Triveni Sangam Prayag Kumbh Mela 1954 Prayag Kumbh Mela stampede 2013 Prayag Kumbh Mela stampede The Leader (Allahabad newspaper) The Pioneer (newspaper) Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences
Mythology, history	History of Prayagraj Nehru–Gandhi family Sam Higginbottom
Districts	Fatehpur Kaushambi Pratapgarh Prayagraj
Rivers, dams, lakes	Ganges Yamuna
Languages, people	Standard Hindi Awadhi Hindustani Urdu
Transport	National Highway 2 Grand Trunk Road Howrah–Delhi main line Allahabad Bypass Expressway
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