Kanpur Lok Sabha Election 2024: Ramesh Awasthi Of BJP Wins!

BJP's Ramesh Awasthi clinches victory in Kanpur Lok Sabha Election 2024
Kanpur Lok Sabha Election 2024: Ramesh Awasthi Of BJP Wins!
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Ramesh Awasthi of the Bharatiya Janata party won the close race to hold the Kanpur Lok Sabha seat, defeating Alok Mishra of the INDIA bloc by 20,968 votes. While the INDIA candidate received 4,22,087 votes and the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate received 12,032 votes, Awasthi received 4,43,055 votes.

Out of the 16,62,859 voters in this seat, only 8,82,074 (53.05%) cast ballots. The turnout for this seat was 52% in 2019, 37% in 2009, and 52% in 2014. Compared to 2019's turnout, the projected turnout for 2024 was +1.43%.

The candidates contesting in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from this seat and the number of votes they got -

1. Ramesh Awasthi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - 4,43,055

2. Alok Misra, Indian National Congress (INC) - 4,22,087

3. Valendra Katiyar, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCOIC) - 270

4. Manoj Kumar, Independent (IND) - 778

5. Alok Mishra, Independent (IND) - 1,198

6. Prashast Dheer, All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) - 465

7. Ashok Paswan, Sabhi Jan Party (SJP) - 1,974

8. Kuldeep Bhadauriya, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) - 12,032

9. Ajay Kumar Mishra, Independent (IND) - 672

10. Arvind Kumar Srivastava, Independent (IND) - 398

11. Sanjay Singh, Proutist Bloc, India (PBI) - 350.

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