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Pilibhit Lok Sabha Election 2024: 60.23% voter turnout recorded in first phase of polls
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Summary
The Pilibhit seat comprises of five Vidhan Sabha segments – Baheri, Pilibhit, Barkhera, Puranpur and Bisalpur.
Pilibhit recorded 60.23% voter turnout, according to the Election Commission’s Voter Turnout app. It is one of the 80 parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh which is voting in the first phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
People in some areas of Pilibhit district announced a poll boycott as a protest against the lack of civic amenities, the PTI reported. The residents of Purana village, located in the Barkheda Police station limits, said they would not vote in protest against the absence of a bridge in the area.
Residents of Dahgala, Bakshpur and nearby villages boycotted voting as the road leading to the villages through the officers’ colony has allegedly been blocked.
Historically, the parliamentary constituency has been a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stronghold, represented by Maneka Gandhi and her son Varun Gandhi.
However, for the first time in over thirty years, the mother-son team is absent from the Pilibhit constituency race. Instead, BJP’s Jitin Prasada, a minister from Uttar Pradesh, is contesting from this seat.
Pilibhit, in the 2024 elections, is witnessing a three-way contest between Prasada, Samajwadi Party’s Bhagwat Saran Gangwar and Anis Ahmed Khan from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
The Pilibhit seat comprises of five Vidhan Sabha segments – Baheri, Pilibhit, Barkhera, Puranpur and Bisalpur.
Pilibhit Lok Sabha election 2024: List of candidates
| Candidate names | Party |
| Jitin Prasada | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
| Anis Ahmed Khan | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) |
| Bhagwat Saran Gangwar | Samajwadi Party (SP) |
| Rajeev Kumar Saxena | Bhartiya Krishak Dal |
| Sanjay Kumar Bharti | Rashtriya Samaj Dal (R) |
| Adarsh Pandey | Independent |
2019 Lok Sabha election result
BJP’s Varun Gandhi secured a resounding victory in the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency defeating SP’s Hemraj Verma by an impressive margin of over 2.5 lakh votes. Varun Gandhi garnered over 7 lakh votes , while Verma managed just above 4.48 lakh votes.
| Candidate names | Party | Vote Share |
| Varun Gandhi | BJP | 7,04,549 (59%) |
| Hemraj Verma | SP | 4,48,922 (38%) |
| NOTA | – | 9,973 (1%) |
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