Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency

Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh

Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Babaganj Kunda Sirathu Manjhanpur Chail
Established	2008-present
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Vinod Kumar Sonkar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019

Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. This constituency, spread over Kaushambi and Pratapgarh districts came into existence in 2008 as a part of the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.

Assembly segments

Presently, Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:^[1]

No	Name	District	Member
245	Babaganj (SC)	Pratapgarh	Vinod Saroj	Jansatta Dal
246	Kunda	Pratapgarh	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Jansatta Dal
251	Sirathu	Kaushambi	Pallavi Patel	Samajwadi Party
252	Manjhanpur (SC)		Indrajit Saroj	Samajwadi Party
253	Chail		Pooja Pal	Samajwadi Party

Members of Parliament

Year	Member^[2]
Till 2008 : Constituency did not exist
2009	Shailendra Kumar	Samajwadi Party
2014	Vinod Kumar Sonkar	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Vinod Kumar Sonkar	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Kaushambi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vinod Sonkar	383,009	39.31	+2.88
	SP	Indrajit Saroj	3,44,287	35.33	-
	Jansatta Dal (L)	Shailendra Kumar	1,56,406	16.05	+16.05
	Independent	Shailendra Kumar	26,967	2.77
	INC	Girish Chandra Pasi	16,442	1.69
	Independent	Shailendra Kumar	8,011	0.82
	PSP(L)	Rajdev	4,986	0.51	+0.51
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,769	1.52	-0.15
Majority			38,722	3.98	-0.73
Turnout			9,75,037	54.56
	BJP hold		Swing

2014 result

2014 Indian general elections: Kaushambi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vinod Kumar Sonkar	3,31,724	36.43	+27.49#
	SP	Shailendra Kumar	2,88,824	31.72	-12.99
	BSP	Suresh Pasi	2,01,322	22.11	-12.48
	INC	Mahendra Kumar	31,905	3.50	-3.89
	Independent	Mohan Lal	9,182	1.01	N/A
	BMP	Shripal	7,341	0.81	N/A
	RSMD	Malti Devi	6,548	0.72	N/A
	LKD	Rajendra Sonkar	6,386	0.70	N/A
	Independent	Bina Rani	4,957	0.54	N/A
	AAP	Swarnalata Suman	3,692	0.41	N/A
	Independent	Chhedoo	3,340	0.37	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	15,169	1.67	N/A
Majority			42,900	4.71	-5.41
Turnout			9,10,514	52.37	+12.74
Registered electors			16,72,976
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

#Swing based on addition of performance of BJP and Apna Dal in previous election

2009 result

2009 Indian general elections: Kaushambi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Shailendra Kumar	2,46,501	44.71
	BSP	Girish Chandra Pasi	1,90,712	34.59
	INC	Ram Nihor Rakesh	40,765	7.39
	BJP	Gautam Chaudhary	30,475	5.53
	AD	Umesh Chandra Pasi	18,799	3.41
	Independent	Ram Saran	11,570	2.10
	Independent	Man Singh	3,973	0.72
	Independent	Jagdeo	3,973	0.72
	IJP	Gulab Sonkar	2,975	0.54
	Independent	Gulab Chandra	2,500	0.45
Majority			55,789	10.12
Turnout			5,51,311	39.63
Registered electors			13,91,312
	SP win (new seat)

References

^ "Information and Statistics-Parliamentary Constituencies-50-Kaushambi". Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh website.
^ "Kaushambi (Uttar Pradesh) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 - Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.