Akbarpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Akbarpur
Existence	2009-present
Reservation	None
Current MP	Devendra Singh Bhole
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2014
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly Constituencies	Akbarpur-Raniya Bithoor Kalyanpur Maharajpur Ghatampur

Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency (Hindi: अकबरपुर लोक सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. This constituency 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, Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:^[1]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Number of electorates (2014)^[2]
206	Akbarpur-Raniya	None	Kanpur Dehat	3,05,442
210	Bithoor	None	Kanpur Nagar	3,52,139
211	Kalyanpur	None	Kanpur Nagar	3,47,740
217	Maharajpur	None	Kanpur Nagar	4,41,020
218	Ghatampur	SC	Kanpur Nagar	3,22,294
Total:				17,68,635

These assembly segments were earlier in erstwhile Bilhaur and Ghatampur (SC) parliamentary constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	2009	Raja Ram Pal	Indian National Congress
	2014	Devendra Singh Bhole	Bharatiya Janata Party

General Elections 2014

Indian general elections, 2014: Akbarpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Devendra Singh (Bhole Singh)	4,81,584	49.57	+24.95
	BSP	Anil Shukla Warsi	2,02,587	20.85	-4.33
	SP	Lal Singh Tomar	1,47,002	15.13	-2.32
	INC	Rajaram Pal	96,827	9.97	-20.24
	AAP	Arvind Kumar	7,914	0.81	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,948	0.41	New
Majority			2,78,997	28.72	+23.69
Turnout			9,71,375	54.93	+13.19
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+28.10

Election Results

Indian general elections, 2009: Akbarpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Raja Ram Pal	1,92,549	30.21
	BSP	Anil Shukla Warsi	1,60,506	25.18
	BJP	Arun Kumar Tiwari (Baba)	1,56,907	24.62
	SP	Kamlesh Kumar Pathak	1,11,243	17.45
	Independent	Virendra Vishwakarma	6,613	1.03
	Janwadi Party Socialist	Amar Singh Chauhan	5,468	0.86
	Rastriya Samanta Dal	A.K. Gupta	2,627	0.41
	Independent	Manjesh Kumar	1,642	0.26
	Rastriya Kranrikari Party	Satendra Kushwaha	1,580	0.25
	Akhil Bhartiya Ashok Sena	Vimal Singh	1,494	0.23
	BPD	Dharmendra Pratap Singh	1,461	0.23
	Independent	Omkar	1,355	0.21
	Rastriya Jan Uthan Party	Ram Gopal	1,051	0.16
	RSP	Daya Shanker	720	0.11
	RPI(A)	Ch. Dharmendra Singh	623	0.10
	JD(S)	Baikunth Nath	595	0.09
Majority			32,043	5.03	-2.83
Turnout			6,37,254	43.62
	INC win (new seat)

Notes

↑ "Information and Statistics-Parliamentary Constituencies-44-Akbarpur". Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh website.
↑ Parliamentary & Assembly Constituency-Wise Report of Electors in the Final Roll-2014

Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh

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