Gorakhpur is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Gorakhpur, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. In the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections, the constituency had 1,432,002 eligible voters, of whom 48.13% exercised their franchise. There were nine candidates. Election was conducted at 1227 polling stations, and 689,248 valid votes were counted. Adityanath Yogi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was elected by a margin of 142,309 votes. Members of Parliament 1952: Sinhasan Singh, Indian National Congress 1957: Sinhasan Singh, Indian National Congress 1962: Sinhasan Singh, Indian National Congress 1967: Mahant Digvijay Nath, Hindu Mahasabha 1971: Narsingh Narain Pandey, Indian National Congress 1977: Harikesh Bahadur, Indian National Congress 1980: Harikesh Bahadur, Indian National Congress 1984: Madan Pandey, Indian National Congress 1989: Mahant Avaidyanath, Bharatiya Janata Party 1991: Mahant Avaidyanath, Bharatiya Janata Party 1996: Mahant Avaidyanath, Bharatiya Janata Party 1998: Yogi Adityanath, Bharatiya Janata Party 1999: Yogi Adityanath, Bharatiya Janata Party 2004: Yogi Adityanath, Bharatiya Janata Party 2009: Yogi Adityanath, Bharatiya Janata Party Election results Percentage changes are based on numbers from the 1999 elections. Indian general elections, 2004: Gorakhpur Party Candidate Votes % ±% BJP Adityanath Yogi 353,647 51.31 +21.52 Samajwadi Party Jamuna Prasad 211,608 30.70 +6.06 BSP Pradeep Kumar Nishad 70,449 10.22 -19.26 Congress Shardendu Pandey 33,477 4.86 -8.59 Independent Ram Milan 8,785 1.27 AD Chandra Bhan Singh Patel 3,225 0.47 -1.05 SBSP Gopal Rajbhar 3,081 0.45 Independent Ram Kishum 2,716 0.39 ABHM Mahanth Ramdas Brahmchari 2,260 0.33 Majority 142,309 20.61 +20.32 Turnout 689,248 48.13 -2.16 Percentage changes are based on numbers from the 2004 elections. Indian general elections, 2009: Gorakhpur Party Candidate Votes % ±% BJP Adityanath Yogi 403,156 53.85 +2.34 BSP Vinay Shankar Tiwari 182,885 24.43 +14.21 Samajwadi Party Manoj Tiwari 83,059 11.09 -19.61 Congress Lalchand Nishad 30,262 4.04 -0.82 Independent Chhedilal 8,953 1.20 Independent Niranjan Prasad 6,519 0.87 Independent Govind 4,829 0.65 Ambedkar Samaj Party Aman 3,007 0.40 Independent Harishchandra 2,944 0.39 AD Divyashankar Nishad 2,353 0.31 -0.16 Independent Awdhesh Singh 2,232 0.30 Majority 220,271 29.42 +8.81 Turnout 748,617 BJP hold
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