Balrampur was a Lok Sabha constituency in northern India. Balrampur is in Uttar Pradesh state . This constituency ceased to exist in 2008 with the implementation of delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies. Most of the area under the erstwhile Balrampur seat now falls under Shravasti Lok Sabha constituency since 2008.
Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee contested Lucknow by-election in 1955 and came third. Then in 1957, he contested General Election in three seats. He finished fourth in Mathura, second in Lucknow, and won in Balrampur as his first time representing Lok Sabha. In 1962, he contested Balrampur and Lucknow, and lost in both the seats. In 1967, he contested Balrampur and this time won.
Members of Parliament YearMember Party1957Atal Bihari VajpayeeBharatiya Jana Sangh1962Subhadra JoshiIndian National Congress1967Atal Bihari VajpayeeBharatiya Jana Sangh1971Chandra Bhal Mani TiwariIndian National Congress1977Nanaji DeshmukhJanata Party1980Chandra Bhal Mani TiwariIndian National Congress (I) 1984Mahant Deep Narain VanIndian National Congress1989Fasi-ur-Rehman Munnan KhanIndependent1991 Satya Deo Singh Bharatiya Janata Party19961998 Rizwan Zaheer Samajwadi Party19992004Brij Bhushan Sharan SinghBharatiya Janata Party
Election results 1957 Lok Sabha Election Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJS) : 118,380 votes Hyder Hussain (INC) : 108,568 votes
Uttar Pradesh
1962 Lok Sabha Election Subhadra Joshi (INC) : 102,260 votes Atal Behari Bajpai (sic, he spelled it Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself) (JS) : 100,208
1967 Lok Sabha Election A. Behari (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) (Bharatiya Jana Sangh) : 142,446 votes S. Joshi (INC) : 110,704
2004 Lok Sabha Election Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (BJP) 270,941 votes Rizwan Zaheer Alias Rijju Bhaya (BSP) : 218,328
See also Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh List of former constituencies of the Lok Sabha
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