Lalganj Lok Sabha Constituency
Total electors: 16,61,483
Female electors: 7,54,732
Male electors: 9,06,751
Reserved: Yes. For Scheduled Castes
Delimited: Yes. A new Assembly seat – Didarganj – was created within the Lok Sabha constituency.
Assembly Constituencies: Atrauliya, Nizamabad, Phoolpur Pawai, Didarganj, Lalganj
Results in last four Lok Sabha elections: While Bali Ram of the BSP has won the seat twice: 1999 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Daroga Prasad Saroj won the seat on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 2004 elections. In 2014, Neelam Sonkar of the BJP won the seat.
Demographics: Part of Azamgarh district, which is considered a bastion of the Samajwadi Party, Lalganj’s electorate is dominated by Muslims and Dalits.