Ambedkar Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency)
Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. 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. There were great personalities from this district. Ex Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, BSP Supremo Ku. Mayawati won for the 3 times and hold the seat as a Member of Parliament from 1998-2004. The great socialist political leader Dr Ram Manohar Lohia was also from this place. The great freedom fighter Shri Jai Ram Verma, called as 'Purvanchal Ke Gandhi', was also from this constituency.
Assembly segments
Presently, Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha segments. These are:Katehari, Tanda, Jalalpur and Akbarpur assembly segments were earlier in erstwhile Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of Parliament
- As Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency:
Year | Winner | Party |
1952 | Panna Lal | Indian National Congress |
1957 | Panna Lal | Indian National Congress |
1962 | Panna Lal | Indian National Congress |
1967 | Ramji Ram | Indian National Congress |
1971 | Ramji Ram | Indian National Congress |
1977 | Visharad Mangaldeo | Janata Party |
1980 | Ram Awadh | Janata Party |
1984 | Rampiyare Suman | Indian National Congress |
1989 | Mayawati | Bahujan Samaj Party |
1991 | Ram Awadh | Janata Dal |
1996 | Ghanshyam Chandra Kharvar | Bahujan Samaj Party |
1998 | Mayawati | Bahujan Samaj Party |
1999 | Mayawati | Bahujan Samaj Party |
2002^ | Tribhuvan Dutt | Bahujan Samaj Party |
2004 | Mayawati | Bahujan Samaj Party |
2007^ | Shankhlal Majhi | Samajwadi Party |
^ by poll
- As Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency:
Year | Winner | Party |
2009 | Rakesh Pandey | Bahujan Samaj Party |
2014 | Hari Om Pandey | Bharatiya Janata Party |
2019 | Ritesh Pandey | Bahujan Samaj Party |