Ballia Lok Sabha constituency

For other uses, see Balia (disambiguation).

Ballia is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It is famous for its political history and participation of former PM Chandra Shekhar in JP Andolan, India.

Ballia UP-72
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Ballia Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Phephana Ballia Nagar Bairia Zahoorabad Mohammadabad
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Sanatan Pandey
Party	SP
Alliance	I.N.D.I.A.
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Virendra Singh Mast,   BJP

Assembly segments

Presently, Ballia Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:^[1]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
360	Phephana	Ballia	Sangram Singh		Samajwadi Party		Samajwadi Party
361	Ballia Nagar		Daya Shankar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party
363	Bairia		Jai Prakash Anchal		Samajwadi Party		Samajwadi Party
377	Zahoorabad	Ghazipur	Om Prakash Rajbhar		Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party
378	Mohammadabad		Mannu Ansari		Samajwadi Party

Members of Parliament

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Ram Nagina Singh		Socialist Party
1957	Radha Mohan Singh		Indian National Congress
1962	Murli Manohar
1967	Chandrika Prasad
1971
1977	Chandra Shekhar		Janata Party
1980
1984	Jagannath Chowdhary		Indian National Congress
1989	Chandra Shekhar		Janata Dal
1991			Samajwadi Janata Party
1996
1998
1999
2004
2008^	Neeraj Shekhar		Samajwadi Party
2009
2014	Bharat Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Virendra Singh Mast
2024	Sanatan Pandey		Samajwadi Party

^ by poll

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Ballia^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Sanatan Pandey	467,068	46.37	0.54
	BJP	Neeraj Shekhar	423,684	42.06	5.34
	BSP	Lallan Singh Yadav	85,205	8.46	8.46
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,187	0.81	0.16
Majority			43,384	4.30	2.73
Turnout			10,07,322	52.37	1.98
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Virendra Singh Mast	469,114	47.40	+9.22
	SP	Sanatan Pandey	4,53,595	45.83	+22.45
	SBSP	Vinod	35,900	3.63
	NOTA	None of the above	9,615	0.97
Majority			15,519	1.57	−13.23
Turnout			9,90,571	54.35
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bharat Singh	359,760	38.18
	SP	Neeraj Shekhar	2,20,324	23.38
	QED	Afzal Ansari	1,63,943	17.40
	BSP	Virendra Kumar Pathak	1,41,684	15.04
	INC	Sudha Rai	13,501	1.43
	NOTA	None of the above	6,670	0.71
Majority			1,39,434	14.80
Turnout			9,42,275	53.29
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Neeraj Shekhar	276,649	40.83
	BSP	Sangram Singh Yadav	2,04,094	30.12
	BJP	Manoj Sinha	1,37,740	20.31
	SBSP	Ramshakal	25,865	3.81
Majority			72,555	10.61
Turnout			6,77,729	40.36
	SP hold		Swing

2008 bye-election

2008 bye-elections: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Neeraj Shekhar	295,786	54.6
	BSP	Vinay Shankar Tiwari	1,64,450	30.36
	BJP	Virendra Singh Mast	22,723	4.2
	SBSP	Uma Shankar Nishad	21,449	3.96
	INC	Rajeev Upadhyay	10,755	1.99
Majority			1,31,286	14.24
Turnout			5,41,620	35.61
	SP gain from SJP(R)		Swing

2004

2004 Indian general elections: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SJP(R)	Chandra Shekhar	270,136	43.6
	BSP	Kapildeo Yadav	189,082	30.5
	BJP	P. N. Tiwari	109,499	17.7
	SBSP	Omprakash	28,266	4.6
Majority			81,054	13.1
Turnout			6,19,531	43.3
	SJP(R) hold		Swing

1999

1999 Indian general elections: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SJP(R)	Chandra Shekhar	235,946	38.1
	BJP	Ram Krishna Gopal	180,271	29.1
	BSP	Ramdeo Maurya	142,647	23.01
	INC	Digvijay	36,477	5.9
Majority			55,675	9.01
Turnout			6,19,524	48.1
	SJP(R) hold		Swing

1998

1998 Indian general election: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SJP(R)	Chandra Shekhar	260,544	40.5
	BJP	Ram Krishna Gopal	231,060	36
	BSP	Col. Bharat Singh	96,884	15.1
	INC	Jagannath Chowdhary	33,764	5.3
Majority			29,484	4.5
Turnout			6,42,535	49.9
	SJP(R) hold		Swing

1996

1996 Indian general election: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SJP(R)	Chandra Shekhar	305,592	56.4
	INC	Jagannath Chowdhary	118,987	22
	BSP	Rajendra Rajbhar	70,366	13
	JD	Dharmanand Tiwari	7,399	1.4
Majority			1,86,605	34.4
Turnout			5,41,957	42.5
	SJP(R) hold		Swing

1991

1991 Indian general election: Ballia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SJP(R)	Chandra Shekhar	213,066	44.7
	INC	Jagannath Chowdhary	154,518	32.4
	BSP	Rajendra Rajbhar	34,781	7.3
	BJP	Shiv Kumar Rai	34,581	7.3
Majority			58,548	12.3
Turnout			4,76,635	47.5
	SJP(R) hold		Swing

See also

• Ballia district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha