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Kanpur Lok Sabha — MP & election results

Who is the MP of Kanpur? — Ramesh Awasthi (BJP), who won the Lok Sabha Election 2024 by 20,968 votes. Below: history of 2 elections and every candidate's votes.
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MP · 2024

Ramesh Awasthi

BJP
Margin: 20,968Tight race

Election history — every MP of Kanpur

2 elections · newest first

  1. 2024Jun 2024Ramesh AwasthiBJPCurrent MPLok Sabha Election 2024 · defeated Alok Misra (INC)Margin20,968
  2. 2019May 2019Satyadev PachauriBJPLok Sabha Election 2019 · defeated Sriprakash Jaiswal (INC)Margin1,55,934

Lok Sabha Election 2024 — results

Winner

Ramesh Awasthi

BJPTight race

votes

4,43,055

Margin

20,968(2.4%)

Winner vs Runner-up

Ramesh Awasthi · BJPAlok Misra · INC
4,43,0554,22,087
Candidate (12)votes
  1. 1Ramesh Awasthi✓ WinnerBJP4,43,05549.93%
  2. 2Alok MisraINC4,22,08747.56%
  3. 3Kuldeep BhadauriyaBSPDeposit lost12,0321.36%
  4. 4NOTA4,1170.46%
  5. 5Ashok Paswan AdvocateSabhi Jan PartyDeposit lost1,9740.22%
  6. 6Alok MishraINDDeposit lost1,1980.14%
See all candidates (+6)
  1. 7Manoj KumarINDDeposit lost7780.09%
  2. 8Ajay Kumar MishraINDDeposit lost6720.08%
  3. 9Prashast DheerAll India Forward BlocDeposit lost4650.05%
  4. 10Arvind Kumar SrivastavaINDDeposit lost3980.04%
  5. 11Sanjay SinghProutist Bloc, IndiaDeposit lost3500.04%
  6. 12Valendra KatiyarSocialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Deposit lost2700.03%
Total votes8,87,396

Deposit lost: 9 of 11 candidates — those not elected who polled no more than one-sixth of the valid votes of all candidates, NOTA excluded (Representation of the People Act 1951, s.158).

Electors & turnout — Lok Sabha election 2024

From the Election Commission of India's statistical report

Electors
16,64,794

incl. service voters

Votes cast
8,87,948

incl. 5,906 postal

Turnout
53.34%
Polling stations
1,607

Turnout of men and women

Women50.9%

3,95,721 of 7,76,996 voted on EVMs

Men54.8%

4,86,307 of 8,87,676 voted on EVMs

Third-gender electors: 122; 14 voted.

  • Candidates11
  • Lost deposit9
  • NOTA4,117
  • Valid votes8,83,279

Past elections

Lok Sabha Election 2019Winner: Satyadev Pachauri (BJP)Full result ▾
Candidate (15)votes
  1. 1Satyadev Pachauri✓ WinnerBJP4,68,93755.63%
  2. 2Sriprakash JaiswalINC3,13,00337.13%
  3. 3Ram KumarSPDeposit lost48,2755.73%
See all candidates (+12)
  1. 4NOTA4,0570.48%
  2. 5Alok KumarSabhi Jan PartyDeposit lost1,8850.22%
  3. 6Poonam ShuklaBhartiya Shakti Chetna PartyDeposit lost1,1300.13%
  4. 7Ram Gopal UttamINDDeposit lost1,0780.13%
  5. 8Shivam KushwahaINDDeposit lost9980.12%
  6. 9Javed Mohammad KhanINDDeposit lost6960.08%
  7. 10Chandra Bhan SankhwarINDDeposit lost5950.07%
  8. 11Balveer Singh ChandelShiv SenaDeposit lost5910.07%
  9. 12Dilshad AhmadINDDeposit lost5800.07%
  10. 13Triveni Narayan JaiswalINDDeposit lost4860.06%
  11. 14Reena Urf RenuSaaf PartyDeposit lost3670.04%
  12. 15Mukti YadavBharatiya Rashtriya MorchaDeposit lost3160.04%
Total votes8,42,994

Lok Sabha Election 2019 — full result page →

Assembly segments

Frequently asked questions

Who is the MP of Kanpur?

Ramesh Awasthi (BJP) won Kanpur in the Lok Sabha Election 2024 with 4,43,055 votes.

What was the winning margin in Kanpur?

Ramesh Awasthi defeated Alok Misra (INC) by 20,968 votes.

Who were the previous MPs of Kanpur?

2019: Satyadev Pachauri (BJP)

What was the turnout in Kanpur in 2024?

53.34% — 8,87,948 of 16,64,794 electors voted (postal votes included). Women's turnout was 50.9%, men's 54.8%.

How many voters does Kanpur have?

16,64,794 electors at the 2024 election — 8,87,676 men, 7,76,996 women, 122 third gender (service voters included), and 1,607 polling stations.

Source: eci.gov.in/statistical-report/ge/2024/1 · eci.gov.in/statistical-report/ge/2019/cat/1551 · verify with the original source for official use · Disclaimer