Balrampur Lok Sabha constituency was a
Lok Sabha
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(parliamentary)
constituency
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in northern
India
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Balrampur
Balrampur is a city and a municipal board in Balrampur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is situated on the bank of river Rapti and is the district headquarters of Balrampur district.
Demographics
As of 2011 Indian Census, Bal ...
is in
Uttar Pradesh
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state . This constituency ceased to exist in 2008 with the implementation of delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies. Most of the area under the erstwhile Balrampur seat now falls under
Shravasti Lok Sabha constituency since 2008.
Former PM
Shri Atal Bihari Bajpai contested Lucknow by-election in 1955 and came third. Then in 1957, he contested General Election in three seats. He finished fourth in Mathura, second in
Lucknow
Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and divis ...
, and won in Balrampur as his first time representing Lok Sabha. In 1962, he contested Balrampur and Lucknow, and lost in both the seats. In 1967, he contested Balrampur and this time won.
Members of Parliament
Election results
1957 Lok Sabha Election
* Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJS) : 118,380 votes
* Hyder Hussain (INC) : 108,568 votes
Uttar Pradesh
1962 Lok Sabha Election
* Subhadra Joshi (INC) : 102,260 votes
* Atal Behari Bajpai (sic, he spelled it Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself) (JS) : 100,208
1967 Lok Sabha Election
* A. Behari (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) (Bharatiya Jana Sangh) : 142,446 votes
* S. Joshi (INC) : 110,704
2004 Lok Sabha Election
* Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (BJP) 270,941 votes
* Rizwan Zaheer Alias Rijju Bhaya (BSP) : 218,328
See also
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Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh
Balrampur district is one of the district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and is a part of Devipatan division as well as the historic Awadh regions. It has been cut from the adjacent district Gonda in 1997. Located on the banks of the We ...
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List of former constituencies of the Lok Sabha
This is a list of former constituencies of the Lok Sabha of India, organised by date of abolition. It does not include constituencies which were merely renamed.
Constituencies abolished in 1956
Bombay (2)
The constituencies came into existence ...
References
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Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh
Former Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh
Former constituencies of the Lok Sabha
2008 disestablishments in India
Constituencies disestablished in 2008