Basti is a Lok Sabha / Parliamentary constituency in Poorvanchal of Uttar Pradesh and is located in North India. Basti Lok Sabha is reserved for General.
It is a Rural constituency with an approximate literacy rate of 67.22%. There are 18,31,666 voters of which 9,90,184 are male and 8,41,345 are female and 137 voters of the third gender.
Harish Chandra Alias Harish Dwivedi of BJP (alliance: NDA) won in this seat defeating SP. BJP polled 3,57,680 of the total of 10,48,534 votes polled. BSP won the seat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Basti goes to the polls in the 6st phase of the 2019 General Elections to choose the 17th Lok Sabha on Sunday, May 12, 2019. The election results for the seat are scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2019.
The voter turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was 58.66%.
| Constituency Data (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. | 61 |
| Total Assembly Segments | 5 |
| Reservation for | General |
| Number of Voters | 17,87,476 |
| Number of Male Voters | 9,62,508 |
| Number of Female Voters | 8,24,831 |
| Results | 2014 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | BJP | BSP |
| Turnout % | 58.66% | 49.27% |
| Margin of Victory | 33,562 | 1,05,210 |
| Margin of Victory % | 3.2% | 13.6% |
| Results | 2014 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | BJP | BSP |
| Turnout % | 58.66% | 49.27% |
| Margin of Victory | 33,562 | 1,05,210 |
| Margin of Victory % | 3.2% | 13.6% |
| Party | Votes Polled | Votes % | CANDIDATE NAME |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | 471162 | 44.68% | Harish Chandra Alias Harish DwivediWinner |
| BSP | 440808 | 41.80% | Ram Prasad Chaudhary |
| INC | 86920 | 8.24% | Raj Kishor Singh |
| SBSP | 11971 | 1.14% | Vinod Kumar Rajbhar |
| Nota | 10335 | 0.98% | Nota |
| IND | 7639 | 0.72% | Rangi Lal Yadav |
| LGBP | 7345 | 0.70% | Pankaj Dubey |
| IND | 5590 | 0.53% | Bhagwandas |
| JKP | 3737 | 0.35% | Ram Prasad Chaurasiya |
| HND | 3182 | 0.30% | Rohit Kumar Pathak |
| IND | 3170 | 0.30% | Chandra Mani Pandey |
| RPOI | 2680 | 0.25% | Pramod Shukla |
