Moradabad (Lok Sabha constituency)

Member of Parliament From Moradabad
Incumbent Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh since 21 May 2014
Inaugural holder	Ram Saran
Formation	15 August 1947

Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency (Hindi: मुरादाबाद लोक सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in western Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Formed before the 1952 elections, according to Election Commission of India 2009 data the total electorates in the Moradabad Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 6) were 1,388,525 of which 634,547 are females and 753,978 are males. The administrative headquarters of Moradabad district is situated in the city of Moradabad. It is located in the northern part of the state at a distance of 167 km from the national capital, New Delhi. Situated on the banks of the river Ramganga, this town lies at an average elevation of 198 meters. Hindi is the official language of Moradabad, though Urdu, Punjabi and English are widely spoken.

According to the census data of 2011, Moradabad has a total population of 889,810 of which 53% are males and 47% are females. It has a sex ratio of 908 females per 1000 males. 12.4% of the population is below the age of six. The city of Moradabad has an average literacy of 70.65% with male literacy at 74.05% and female literacy at 66.90%. The economy of this city is primarily dependent on the Brass industry, the produces of which are exported worldwide. Moradabad has a promising number of notable universities, schools and colleges. The divisional headquarters of the Northern Railway of India is situated in this city. National Highway NH 24 passes through Moradabad.

Assembly segments

At present, after the implementation of the Presidential notification on delimitation on February 19, 2008, Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments.Kanth and Thakurdwara assembly segments before 2008 were in erstwhile Amroha and Rampur Lok Sabha constituencies respectively.These are:

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/General)	MLA and Ruling party	District	Number of electorates (2014)
19	Barhapur	General	Mohammad Ghazi BSP	Bijnor	3,14,641
25	Kanth	General	Aneesurrehman PECP	Moradabad	3,08,925
28	Moradabad Nagar	General	Mohammad Yusuf Ansari SP	Moradabad	3,99,194
27	Moradabad Rural	General	Shameemul Haq SP	Moradabad	3,08,950
26	Thakurdwara	General	Nawab Jan SP	Moradabad	3,13,876
Total:					16,45,586

List of Members of Parliament from Moradabad

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Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh, Incumbent Member of Parliament from Moradabad

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Election		Member	Party
	1952	Ram Saran	Indian National Congress
	1957	Ram Saran	Indian National Congress
	1962	Syed Muzaffar Hussain	Independent (politician)
	1967	O. P. T. Pursharthi	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
	1971	Virendra Agarwala	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
	1977	Ghulam Mohammad Khan	Bharatiya Lok Dal
	1980	Ghulam Mohammad Khan	Janata Party (Secular)
	1984	Hafiz Mohd. Siddiq	Indian National Congress
	1989	Ghulam Mohammad Khan	Janata Dal
	1991	Ghulam Mohammad Khan	Janata Dal
	1996	Shafiqur Rahman Barq	Samajwadi Party
	1998	Shafiqur Rahman Barq	Samajwadi Party
	1999	Chandra Vijay Singh (Baby Raja)	Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress
	2004	Shafiqur Rahman Barq	Samajwadi Party
	2009	Mohammad Azharuddin	Indian National Congress
	2014	Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party

General elections 2014

Indian general elections, 2014: Moradabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh	4,85,224	43.02	9.88
	SP	Dr. S T Hasan	3,97,720	35.26	31.5
	BSP	Haji Mohd. Yaqoob	1,60,945	14.27	5.13
	PECP	Engineer Mohammad Irfan	25,840	2.29	2.29
	INC	Begum Noor Bano	19,732	1.75	37.8
	Trinamool Congress	Saurabh Pratap Singh	5,647	0.50	0.50
Majority			87,504	7.94	4.95
Turnout			11,27,965	65.56	10.76
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	9.88

See also

• Moradabad district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha