Allahabad Lok Sabha constituency

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

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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
Established	1951–present
Total electors	1716160[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Ujjwal Raman Singh
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

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]

Most Successful parties from Allahabad Lok Sabha

  INC ( 10 Times) (43.33%)

  BJP (5 Times) (21.38%)

  Janata Dal (3 times) (12.83%)

  Samajwadi Party (2 times) (8.5%)

  Janata Party (1 time) (4.2%)

Vidhan Sabha Segments

No	Name	District	Member	Party
259	Meja	Prayagraj	Sandeep Singh Patel		Samajwadi Party
260	Karachhana		Piyush Ranjan Nishad		Bharatiya Janata Party
263	Allahabad South		Nand Gopal Gupta
265	Koraon (SC)		Rajmani Kol
264	Bara (SC)		Vachaspati		Apna Dal

Members of Lok Sabha

Year	Member[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	V. P. Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1980^	Krishna Prakash Tiwari
1984	Amitabh Bachchan		Indian National Congress
1988^	V. P. Singh		Jan Morcha
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
2024	Ujjwal Raman Singh		Indian National Congress

^ denotes Bye-poll

Election results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Allahabad^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ujjwal Raman Singh	462,145	48.80	45.21
	BJP	Neeraj Tripathi	4,03,350	42.59	13.03
	BSP	Ramesh Kumar Patel	49,144	5.19	5.19
	NOTA	None of the Above	9,952	1.05	0.19
Majority			58,795	6.21	14.52
Turnout			9,47,000	51.82	0.01
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

General Election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Allahabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	494,454	55.62	+20.43
	SP	Rajendra Singh Patel	3,10,179	34.89	+6.65
	INC	Yogesh Shukla	31,953	3.59	−7.90
	CPI	Giridhar Gopal Tripathi	10,403	1.17	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,625	0.86	+0.45
Majority			1,84,275	20.73	+13.78
Turnout			8,89,553	51.83	−1.67
	BJP hold		Swing	+20.43

General Election 2014

2014 Indian general election: Allahabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shyama Charan Gupta	3,13,772	35.19	+24.08
	SP	Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh	2,51,763	28.24	−9.70
	BSP	Keshari Devi Patel	1,62,073	18.18	−13.46
	INC	Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi	1,02,453	11.49	+4.89
	IND.	Draupadi Devi	8,321	0.93	+0.93
	AAP	Adarsh Shastri	6,439	0.72	+0.72
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,624	0.41	+0.41
Majority			62,009	6.95	+0.61
Turnout			8,91,635	53.50	+10.09
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	+24.08

2009 elections

2009 Indian general election: Allahabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh	209,431	38.06	+2.42
	BSP	Ashok Kumar Bajpai	174,511	31.72	+14.72
	BJP	Yogesh Shukla	60,983	11.09	−20.23
	INC	Shyam Krishna Pandey	33,027	6.73	+0.55
	AD	Bihari Lal Sharma	22,086	4.01	+0.14
	Independent	Hira Lal	7,537	1.37
	Independent	Abhay Srivastava	5,976	1.09
	Independent	Kusum Kumari	4,236	0.77
	Independent	Akbal Mohammd	2,358	0.43
	Independent	Narendra Kumar Tiwari	2,340	0.43
	RMSP	Om Prakash	2,253	0.41
	NELU	Sarfuddin	2,062	0.37
Majority			34,920	6.34	+2.02
Turnout			5,50,197	43.41
	SP hold		Swing

2004 elections

2004 Indian general election: Allahabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh	2,34,008	35.64
	BJP	Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi	2,05,625	31.32
	BSP	R. K. Singh Patel	1,11,576	17.00
	INC	Satya Prakash Malaviya	40,545	6.18
	AD	Raj Karan Bind	25,426	3.87
Majority			28,383	4.32
Turnout			6,56,498	42.13
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

1999 elections

1999 Indian general election: Allahabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi	2,19,114	33.79
	SP	Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh	1,48,783	22.94
	INC	Dr. Rita Bahuguna Joshi	1,33,428	20.57
	BSP	Ram Dular Singh Patel	1,09,383	16.87
	AD	Ram Prakash Singh Patel	15,231	2.35
	Independent	C. P. Srivastava	10,486	1.63
	Independent	Shiv Dutt Shukla	4,002	0.62
Majority			70,331	10.85
Turnout			6,48,551	45.98
	BJP hold		Swing

1998 elections

1998 Indian general election: Allahabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi	2,65,232	39.70
	SP	Shyama Charan Gupta	2,21,942	33.22
	BSP	Dr. K. P. Srivastava	1,14,179	17.09
	INC	Dal Bahadur Singh	29,092	4.35
	AD	Dr. Kailash Nath Singh Patel	22,210	3.32
Majority			43,290	6.48
Turnout			6,68,083	47.40
	BJP hold		Swing

1996 elections

1996 Indian general election: Allahabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Murli Manohar Joshi	2,16,844	42.71
	JD	Saroj Dubey	1,13,321	22.32
	BSP	Ram Sewak Singh	1,02,352	20.16
	INC	Jagdish Narayan Mishra	30,007	5.91
	Independent	Vijay Shankar	7,827	1.54
Majority			1,03,523	20.39
Turnout			5,07,695	36.48
	BJP gain from JD		Swing

1991 elections

1991 Indian general election: Allahabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Saroj Dubey	1,14,898	29.72
	BJP	Shyama Charan Gupta	1,09,702	28.38
	INC	Anil Shastri	61,488	15.91
	BSP	Jang Bahadur Singh Patel	56,279	14.56
	JP	Moti Lal Kushwaha	21,549	5.57
Majority			5,196	1.34
Turnout			3,86,549	39.27
	JD hold		Swing

1989 elections

1989 Indian general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Janeshwar Mishra	1,78,508	42.92
	INC	Kamala Bahuguna	1,39,568	33.56
	BSP	Jang Bahadur Singh Patel	79,004	19.00
	Independent	Rama Kant	2,690	0.65
	Independent	Shasharka Mishra	2,193	0.53
Majority			38,940	9.36
Turnout			4,15,896	43.26
	Independent gain from JD		Swing

1988 bye-poll elections

By Election, 1988

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Jan Morcha	V. P. Singh	2,02,996	52.03
	INC	Sunil Shastri	92,245	23.64
	BSP	Kanshi Ram	69,517	17.82
	Independent	Hari Shankar	2,067	0.53
	Independent	L. Sharma	1,917	0.49
Majority			1,10,751	28.39
Turnout			3,90,091
	Independent gain from INC		Swing

1984 elections

1984 Indian general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amitabh Bachchan	2,97,461	68.21
	LKD	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	1,09,666	25.15
Majority			1,87,795	43.06
Turnout			4,36,120	56.08
	INC hold		Swing

1977 elections

1977 Indian general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Janeshwar Mishra	1,90,697	57.71
	INC	V. P. Singh	1,00,709	30.48
	ABHM	Om Prakash Nirala	14,761	4.47
	Independent	Kripal Singh	7,363	2.23
	Independent	Govind Mishra	4,297	1.30
Majority			89,988	27.23
Turnout			3,30,419	52.85
	JP gain from INC		Swing

1962 elections

1962 Indian general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1,37,324	58.07
	ABJS	Ram Gopal Sand	68,791	29.09
Majority			68,533	28.98
Turnout			2,36,488	53.01
	INC hold		Swing

1957 elections

1957 Indian general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1,24,896	58.41
	PSP	Radhey Shyam Pathak	68,864	32.21
Majority			56,032	26.20
Turnout			2,13,814	51.50
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• List of mayors of Prayagraj
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

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2. "Allahabad Lok Sabha Constituency: Candidates for 2019 LS poll, past results, all updates". DNA India. 19 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
3. "A battle of turncoats in Phulpur, Allahabad Lok Sabha seats". The Indian Express. 8 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
4. "Key constituencies in Phase 6 of Lok Sabha polls". The Economic Times. 11 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
5. "Phulpur (Uttar Pradesh) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 -Phulpur Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.
6. "General Election to Parliamentary Constituencies: Trends & Results June-2024 Parliamentary Constituency 52 - Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh)". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 9 June 2024.

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

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