Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency

Phulpur
UP-51
Phulpur ; UP-51
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining 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
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Praveen Patel
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

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 Jawaharlal Nehru died in office in 1964 while holding this seat. Hence it is also called "Nehru's constituency".^[2]^[3]

Vidhan Sabha segments

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

Members of Parliament

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
2024	Praveen Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party

^ by poll

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Phulpur^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Praveen Patel	452,600	44.60	11.08
	SP	Amarnath Maurya	4,48,268	44.17	6.07
	BSP	Jagannath Pal	82,586	8.14	8.14
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,460	0.54	0.27
Majority			4,332	0.43	17.15
Turnout			10,14,824	49.10	0.40
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 2019

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

Bye-election, 2018: Phulpur^[9]
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

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

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

General election 2004

2004 Indian general elections: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Atique Ahamad	265432	35.13
	BSP	Keshari Devi Patel	201085	26.62
	BJP	Beni Madhav Bind	151509	20.06
	AD(K)	Sone Lal Patel	80388	10.64
	INC	Ram Pujan Patel	11367	1.50
Majority			64347	8.52
Turnout			755222
	SP hold		Swing

General election 1999

1999 Indian general elections: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Dharmaraj Singh Patel	183282	26.95
	BJP	Beni Madhav Bind	163243	24.01
	BSP	Tulasi Ram Yadav	150173	22.08
	AD(K)	Sone Lal Patel	127780	18.79
	INC	Ram Pujan Patel	32376	4.76
Majority			20030	2.94
Turnout			680072	58.38
	SP hold		Swing

General election 1998

1998 Indian general election: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Jang Bahadur Singh Patel	216124	32.17
	BJP	Beni Madhav Bind	201604	30.01
	BSP	Ram Pujan Patel	177556	26.43
	AD(K)	Sone Lal Patel	42152	6.27
	INC	Jagdish Narain Mishra	19382	2.89
Majority			14520	2.16
Turnout			671810	57.61
	SP hold		Swing

General election 1996

1996 Indian general election: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SP	Jang Bahadur Singh Patel	162844	29.41
	BSP	Kanshi Ram	146823	26.51
	BJP	B.D.Singh	119318	21.55
	INC	Ram Pujan Patel	67714	12.23
	AIIC(T)	Shyam Surat Upadhyay	15304	2.76
Majority			16021	2.9
Turnout			553784	47.9
	SP gain from JD		Swing

General election 1991

1991 Indian general election: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD	Ram Pujan Patel	150640	34.02
	BSP	Beni Madhav Bind	91039	20.56
	BJP	Deoraj Singh	84449	19.08
	JP	Nisar Ahmed	64484	15.01
	INC	Roop Nath Singh Yadav	27097	6.12
Majority			59601	13.46
Turnout			442831	47.8
	JD hold		Swing

General election 1989

1989 Indian general election: Phulpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD	Ram Pujan Patel	198266	39.84
	INC	Chandrajit Yadav	165765	33.31
	BSP	Beni Madhav Bind	115521	23.22
	Independent	Tulsi Ram Saroj	3756	0.75
	Doordarshi Party	Sriram Jaiswal	3066	0.62
Majority			32501	6.53
Turnout			497607	54.39
	JD gain from INC		Swing

1964 by-election

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

General elections 1957

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

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			51,871	8.60
Turnout			6,03,022	40.21
	INC win (new seat)

Notes

^ 2 member constituency
^ 2 member constituency

References

^ "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".
^ "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Phulpur". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 31 May 2025. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
^ "Phulpur Constituency Lok Sabha Election Result 2024". The Times of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 31 May 2025. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
^ "UP Lok Sabha bypolls: SP's Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel wins from Phulpur seat". The Times of India. 14 March 2018. Archived from the original on 3 June 2025. Retrieved 3 June 2025.

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[5] 2 member constituency

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[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".

[2024_Loksabha_Elections_Results_-_Phulpur-9] "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Phulpur". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 31 May 2025. Retrieved 31 May 2025.

[Phulpur_Constituency_Lok_Sabha_Election_Result_2024-10] "Phulpur Constituency Lok Sabha Election Result 2024". The Times of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 31 May 2025. Retrieved 31 May 2025.

[UP_Lok_Sabha_bypolls:_SP's_Nagendra_Pratap_Singh_Patel_wins_from_Phulpur_seat-11] "UP Lok Sabha bypolls: SP's Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel wins from Phulpur seat". The Times of India. 14 March 2018. Archived from the original on 3 June 2025. Retrieved 3 June 2025.

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