Kanpur Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency number: 43
Total electors: 16,11,248
Female electors: 7,21,903
Male electors: 8,89,345
Reserved: No
Delimited: Yes. Kidwai Nagar Assembly constituency was added to the Lok Sabha constituency.
Assembly Constituencies: Govind Nagar, Sisamau, Arya Nagar, Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur Cantt.
Results in last four Lok Sabha elections: Former Union minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal won the seat thrice on a Congress ticket before losing to BJP stalwart Murli Manohar Joshi in 2014 elections.
Demographics: The industrial hub of Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur is an urban constituency. Muslims, Scheduled Castes, often non-Jatavs, Yadavs and upper castes voters form a bulk of the electorate.