Bhojpuri actor and Bharatiya Janata Party's Ravi Kishan has won Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency by over 3 lakh votes. Kishan fought against Congress' Madhusudan Tripathi and Samajwadi Party's Rambhual Nishad. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Election, UP CM Yogi Adityanath beat Rajmati Nishad of SP by receiving 51.80% of the votes.