Azamgarh Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

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Azamgarh Lok Sabha Elections Result 2019

Azamgarh Lok Sabha Elections and Results 2014

Azamgarh Lok Sabha Election Summary

Azamgarh is one of the eastern constituencies of the state of Uttar Pradesh. The district, in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, saw a contest among the Samajwadi Party's candidate Mulayam Singh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Shah Alam, BJP's candidate Shri Ramakant Yadav, Congress' Arvind Jaiswal and AAP's Rajesh Yadav.

And it was Mulayam Singh Yadav who emerged as the winner of the Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat.

Samajwadi Party's candidate Mulayam Singh Yadav won the election by a resounding 340306 votes, defeating Ramakant Yadav by a margin of 63204 votes. In third place, Shah Alam won a total of 266528 votes.

Ramakant Yadav has been in power in this area ever since 1999, however he switched from SP to BSP and finally to BJP in the year 2009.

Ramakant Yadav, contesting on a BJP ticket, was declared the winner in 2009. He received a total number of 2,47,648 comprising 35.13% of the total valid votes of 7,04,863. The victory margin in his case was 49,039.

BSP's candidate Akbar Ahmad Dumpy collected a total of 1,98,609 votes which was 28.18% of the total valid votes. Durga Prasad Yadav came in a close third with 1,23,844 votes followed by the independent candidate Dr. Javed Akhtar who received 59,270 votes.

The major issues which were highlighted in these elections were the general infrastructure problems of the district, lack of basic amenities, religion and caste based politics. Also, the district lags behind when it comes to the industrial development ever since independence.

One of the 80 parliamentary constituencies of Uttar Pradesh, Azamgarh Parliamentary Constituency came into existence in 1952. The total number of electorates in the Azamgarh Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 69) according to Election Commission of India 2009 reports are 1,578,854 of which 853,748 are males and 725,106 are females. It comprises of five segments, of which one is reserved for the SC category. It is one of the two constituencies representing Azamgarh District. The district of Azamgarh covers an area of 4,054 sq km and is located between the rivers of Ganges and Ghagahara. It has 7 tehsils and over 4,000 villages which house a total of 4,613,913 people. Females have a 52% majority while 48% comprises of males.

It had a population growth rate of 17.11% from 2001 to 2011 and has a population density of 1,138 people per sq km. Children below the age of six occupy 15.30% of the population and the sex ratio here is 1019 females for every 1000 males. The average literacy rate of Azamgarh is 70.93% and male and female literacy rates are 81.34% and 60.91% respectively. Hindus have a 53% religious majority followed by 45% of Muslims. Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri and Awadhi are widely spoken by the people here. The district is one of the 250 backward districts of the country and receives economic support from the government. The State Highway SH-34 connects the city to the nearby area.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Azamgarh Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Azamgarh parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Azamgarh constituency is Shri Ramakant Yadav of SP.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner/Current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	69	Azamgarh	GEN	Mulayam Singh Yadav	M	SP	340306	Ramakant Yadav	M	BJP	277102
2009	69	Azamgarh	GEN	Yadav,Shri Ramakant	M	BJP	247648	Akbar Ahmad Dumpy	M	BSP	198609
2008	Bye Pol	Azamgarh	GEN	Akbar Ahamad Dampi	M	BSP	227341	Ramakant Yadav	M	BJP	173089
2004	41	Azamgarh	GEN	Ramakant Yadav	M	BSP	258216	Durga Prasad Yadav	M	SP	251248
1999	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Rama Kant Yadav	M	SP	227616	Akbar Ahmad Dumpy	M	BSP	200637
1998	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Akbar Ahmad Dampy	M	BSP	249065	Ramakant Yadav	M	SP	243700
1996	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Rama Kant Yadav	M	SP	161586	Ram Krishna Yadav	M	BSP	139505
1991	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Chandra Jeet	M	JD	156238	Janardan Singh	M	BJP	109605
1989	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Ram Kishana	M	BSP	142171	Tridurari Pujan Pratap Singh Alias Bachcha Babu	M	JD	133090
1984	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Santosh Kumar Singh	M	INC	170051	Ram Naresh Yadav	M	LKD	167265
1980	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Chandrajeet	M	JNP(S)	159069	Zafaruddin Khan Faizan	M	INC(I)	93886
1978	Bye Pol	Azamgarh	GEN	M. Kindwai	F	INC(I)	131329	R.B.Yadav	M	JNP	95944
1977	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Ram Naresh	M	BLD	238985	Chandrajeet	M	INC	101175
1971	45	Azamgarh	GEN	Chandrajeet	M	INC	117719	Vishram	M	SSP	61050
1967	45	Azamgarh	GEN	C. Jeet	M	INC	88690	V. Rai	M	SSP	67537
1962	44	Azamgarh	GEN	Ram Harkh	M	INC	74576	Vishram Rai	M	PSP	63180
1957	46	Azamgarh	(SC)	Kalika	M	INC	138247	Prof. Mukut Behari Lal	M	PSP	119478
1957	46	Azamgarh	(SC)	Vishwanath Prasad	M	INC	103239	Mangal Deo	M	PSP	99589

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Azamgarh Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Azamgarh parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Gopalpur	Sagri	Mubarakpur
Azamgarh	Mehnagar (SC)