Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency

Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.^[1] This Sant Kabir Nagar constituency came into existence in 2009 as a part of the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.

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Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Alapur Menhdawal Khalilabad Dhanghata Khajani
Established	2009–present
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Pappu Nishad alias Laxmikant
Party	SP
Alliance	I.N.D.I.A.
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Praveen Kumar Nishad   BJP

Vidhan Sabha Segments

Presently, Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
279	Alapur (SC)	Ambedkar Nagar	Tribhuwan Dutt		SP		SP
312	Menhdawal	Sant Kabir Nagar	Anil Kumar Tripathi		NISHAD		SP
313	Khalilabad		Ankur Tiwari		BJP		SP
314	Dhanghata (SC)		Ganesh Chandra		BJP		SP
325	Khajani (SC)	Gorakhpur	Sriram Chauhan		BJP		BJP

Mehdawal and Khalilabad Vidhan Sabha segments were earlier part of the erstwhile Khalilabad Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of Lok Sabha

Year	Member	Party
Till 2008 : Constituency did not exist
2009	Bhishma Shankar Tiwari		Bahujan Samaj Party
2014	Sharad Tripathi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Praveen Nishad
2024	Laxmikant		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections Sant Kabir Nagar^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Laxmikant (Pappu Nishad)	498,695	45.70	45.70
	BJP	Praveen Kumar Nishad	4,06,525	37.25	6.72
	BSP	Nadeem Ashraf	1,50,812	13.82	26.79
	NOTA	None of the above	9,227	0.85	0.34
Majority			92,170	8.45	5.09
Turnout			10,91,202	52.67	1.53
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Sant Kabir Nagar^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Praveen Kumar Nishad	467,543	43.97	+9.50
	BSP	Bhishma Shankar Tiwari	4,31,794	40.61
	INC	Bhal Chandra Yadav	1,28,506	12.08
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,631	1.19
Majority			35,749	3.36
Turnout			10,63,925	54.20
	BJP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Sant Kabir Nagar^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sharad Tripathi	3,48,892	34.47
	BSP	Bhism Shankar (Kushal Tiwari)	2,50,914	24.79
	SP	Bhal Chandra Yadav	2,40,169	23.73
	PECP	Rajaram	69,193	6.84
	INC	Rohit Kumar Pandey	22,029	2.18
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,747	0.47
Majority			97,978	9.68
Turnout			10,12,133	53.15
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing

See also

• Khalilabad Lok Sabha constituency
• Sant Kabir Nagar district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha