Salempur Lok Sabha Constituency of Uttar Pradesh: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Salempur Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 80 parliamentary constituencies of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

In UP, 56.84 per cent voting was recorded. The turnout in Varanasi was 58.05 per cent, while Gorakhpur recorded 57.38 per cent voting.

RS Kushwaha of Bahujan Samaj Party, Ravinder of Bharatiya Janata Party and Rajesh Kumar Mishra of Indian National Congress are some of the top candidates contesting the general elections 2019 from Salempur Lok Sabha Constituency of Uttar Pradesh.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Salempur Lok Sabha Constituency of Uttar Pradesh.

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	R S KUSHWAHA	Bahujan Samaj Party
2	RAVINDER	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	RAJESH KUMAR MISHRA	Indian National Congress
4	AJIMULLAH	Peace Party
5	KAILASH CHAUHAN	Janta Kranti Party (Rashtravadi)
6	KRIPA SHANKAR PRASAD	Bharatiya Samta Samaj Party
7	PUJA PANDEY	Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)
8	RAJARAM	Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party
9	RAMJI PRATAP JIGYASU	Hindusthan Nirman Dal
10	MOHD SAROOR ALI	Janata Congress
11	SUMESHWAR NATH TIWARI	RASHTRIYA VIKLANG PARTY
12	CHHOTELAL	Independent
13	VIDYA SHANKER PANDEY	Independent
14	VISHRAM	Independent
15	SUNIL KUMAR PANDEY	Independent

These assembly constituencies are - Bhatpar Rani, Salempur (SC), Belthara Road (SC), Sikanderpur and Bansdih.

The election in this constituency was held in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha election 2019 on May 19 and the results will be declared on May 23.

Ravindra Kushawaha of BJP was elected from this seat in the 2014 polls. With 392213 votes in his favour, Kushawaha defeated Ravi Shanker Singh (Pappu) of BSP in 2014 polls.