Kushi Nagar

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The Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha constituencies and Kushi Nagar is one of them.

According to the data from last census, 24,64,841 people stay in Kushi Nagar. Out of them, 15.83% of voters are from Scheduled Caste while 24,64,841 belong to Scheduled Tribes. Moreover, the number of voters belonging to urban areas is 5.63% while the rural areas from the constituency houses 94.37% people.

The total number of voters from the constituency are 16,80,992. Of them, 9,30,637 and 7,50,355 are male and female voters respectively.

Polling for Kushi Nagar was held on May 19. In the last parliamentary polls, BJP's sitting MP Rajesh Pandey (Guddu) defeated INC's TTprev_runnerup by a margin of 85,540 votes.

The voter turnout recorded was 57%.

Bharatiya Janata Party's VIJAY KUMAR DUBEY swept Kushi Nagar by a vote margin of 337,560. Samajwadi Party's N.P. KUSHWAHA ALIAS NATHUNI PRASAD KUSHWAHA managed to garner only 259479.

Samajwadi Party fielded NP Kushwaha Alias Nathuni Prasad Kushwaha while the Bharatiya Janata Party gave a ticket to Vijay Kumar Dubey. Similarly, the Indian National Congress placed its bet on Kunwer Ratanjit Pratap Narayan Singh.