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Rampur Lok Sabha election: Ghanshyam Lodhi, Mohibullah Nadvi and Zeeshan Khan set for a triangular battle
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Summary
The two major political parties in the constituency are the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Rampur, one of Uttar Pradesh’s 80 Lok Sabha constituencies, is set to vote for the 2024 general elections in the first phase on April 19. Suar, Chamraua, Bilaspur, Rampur, and Milak are the five assembly segments in the Rampur seat. This is a general category constituency.
The two major political parties in the constituency are the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Tall political figures and Indian luminaries including Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Rajendra Kumar Sharma, Zulfiqar Ali Khan, Naipal Singh, and Jaya Prada have all been elected to the Lok Sabha from here.
Voting date
This constituency will vote on April 19. Votes are set to be counted on June 4. The constituency recorded a 63.45% voter turnout in the 2019 elections.
List of candidates
The Rampur Lok Sabha seat will witness a triangular contest between Mohibullah Nadvi, the Samajwadi Party candidate, sitting MP Ghanshyam Lodhi of the BJP and Zeeshan Khan of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
Mohibullah Nadvi represents the India bloc, which has the support of AAP and the Congress.
| Candidate Name | Party |
| Ghanshyam Lodhi | BJP |
| Mohibullah Nadvi | SP |
| Zeeshan Khan | BSP |
2019 results
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Mohammad Azam Khan of the SP won the seat by 109,997 votes. With a 53% vote share, Khan beat BJP candidate Jayaprada Nahata, who received 449,180 votes, or 42.33% of the total.
However, after winning the Karhal assembly seat in 2022, the SP leader quit the post. Following that, Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi of the BJP defeated Mohammad Asim Raja of the SP by more than 42,000 votes in a by-poll.
| Candidate | Party | Vote Share |
| Mohammad Azam Khan | SP | 559,177 (33%) |
| Jayaprada Nahata | BJP | 449,180 (27%) |
| Sanjay Kapoor | INC | 35,009 (2%) |
| NOTA | NOTA | 6,577 (0.4%) |
| Haneef Khan | IND | 2,703 (0.05%) |
| Sameena Begum | IND | 2,122 (0.04%) |
| Javed Khan | IND | 1,963 (0.03%) |
| Naim | IND | 1,518 (0.02%) |
| Arshad Warsi | MNDP | 1,070 (0.01%) |
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