Azamgarh Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency number: 69
Total electors: 17,03,222
Female electors: 7,61,674
Male electors: 9,41,548
Reserved: No
Delimited: No
Assembly Constituencies: Gopalpur, Sagri, Mubarakpur, Azamgarh and Mehnagar
Results in last four Lok Sabha elections: The Azamgarh seat is currently held by Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. Ramakant Yadav has won the seat thrice, first as a Samajwadi Party candidate, then as a BSP candidate and finally in 2009 as a BJP candidate. In 2008 by-poll, Akbar Ahmad of the BSP won the seat.
Demographics: Yadavs, Muslims and Dalit – Chamar, Dhusia, Jhusia, Jatav – voters form the bulk of the electorate in Azamgarh. Notably, Yadav candidates have traditionally been winning the seat since 1952. Part of the industrially backward Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Azamgarh is also largely a rural constituency.