Uttar Pradesh, a politically crucial state, sends 80 MPs to Lok Sabha — the highest in the country. The state will vote in seven phases starting April 19. The result will be announced on June 4.
The BJP will contest the most seats in the NDA. While the Congress will field its candidates in 17 constituencies, the rest, 63 seats, will be distributed between the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party and other members of the Opposition's INDIA bloc.
Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha constituencies — 63 seats are unreserved, while the rest of the 17 seats are reserved for the SC candidates.
Here's a complete list of candidates announced by the BJP so far:
S. NO | Constituencies | Candidates |
1 | Saharanpur | Raghav Lakhanpal |
2 | Kairana | Pradeep Kumar |
3 | Muzaffarnagar | Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan |
4 | Bijnor | |
5 | Nagina (SC) | Om Kumar |
6 | Moradabad | Sarvesh Singh |
7 | Rampur | Ghanshyam Lodhi |
8 | Sambhal | Parameshvar Lal Saini |
9 | Amroha | Kanwar Singh Tanwar |
10 | Meerut | Arun Govil |
11 | Baghpat | |
12 | Ghaziabad | Atul Garg |
13 | Gautam Buddh Nagar | Dr Mahesh Sharma |
14 | Bulandshahr (SC) | Dr Bhola Singh |
15 | Aligarh | Satish Gautam |
16 | Hathras (SC) | Anoop Valmiki |
17 | Mathura | Hema Malini |
18 | Agra (SC) | Satyapal Singh Baghel |
19 | Fatehpur Sikri | Raj Kumar Chahar |
20 | Firozabad | |
21 | Mainpuri | |
22 | Etah | Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya) |
23 | Badaun | Durvijay Singh Shakya |
24 | Aonla | Dharmendra Kashyap |
25 | Bareilly | Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar |
26 | Pilibhit | Jitin Prasada |
27 | Shahjahanpur (SC) | Arun Kumar Sagar |
28 | Kheri | Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ |
29 | Dhaurahra | Rekha Verma |
30 | Sitapur | Rajesh Verma |
31 | Hardoi (SC) | Jai Prakash Rawat |
32 | Misrikh (SC) | Ashok Kumar Rawat |
33 | Unnao | Sakshi Maharaj |
34 | Mohanlalganj (SC) | Kaushal Kishore |
35 | Lucknow | Rajnath Singh |
36 | Rae Bareli | |
37 | Amethi | Smriti Irani |
38 | Sultanpur | Maneka Gandhi |
39 | Pratapgarh | Sangam Lal Gupta |
40 | Farrukhabad | Mukesh Rajput |
41 | Etawah (SC) | Dr Ram Shankar Katheria |
42 | Kannauj | Subrat Pathak |
43 | Kanpur | Ramesh Awasthi |
44 | Akbarpur | Devendra Singh ‘Bhole’ |
45 | Jalaun (SC) | Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma |
46 | Jhansi | Anurag Sharma |
47 | Hamirpur | Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel |
48 | Banda | RK Singh Patel |
49 | Fatehpur | Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti |
50 | Kaushambi (SC) | |
51 | Phulpur | |
52 | Allahabad | |
53 | Barabanki (SC) | Rajrani Rawat |
54 | Faizabad | Lallu Singh |
55 | Ambedkar Nagar | Ritesh Pandey |
56 | Bahraich (SC) | Anand Gond |
57 | Kaiserganj | |
58 | Shravasti | Saket Mishra |
59 | Gonda | Kirti Vardhan Singh |
60 | Domariyaganj | Jagdambika Pal |
61 | Basti | Harish Dwivedi |
62 | Sant Kabir Nagar | Praveen Kumar Nishad |
63 | Maharajganj | Pankaj Choudhary |
64 | Gorakhpur | Ravi Kishan |
65 | Kushi Nagar | Vijay Kumar Dubey |
66 | Deoria | |
67 | Bansgaon (SC) | Kamlesh Paswan |
68 | Lalganj (SC) | Neelam Sonkar |
69 | Azamgarh | Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ |
70 | Ghosi | |
71 | Salempur | Ravindra Kushawaha |
72 | Ballia | |
73 | Jaunpur | Kripashankar Singh |
74 | Machhlishahr (SC) | |
75 | Ghazipur | |
76 | Chandauli | Mahendra Nath Pandey |
77 | Varanasi | Narendra Modi |
78 | Bhadohi | |
79 | Mirzapur | |
80 | Robertsganj (SC) |
Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha elections 2024: Opinion poll results
The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is projected to win as many as 77 seats in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections with a 57% vote share, according to a News18 Opinion Poll.
The INDIA bloc, comprising Samajwadi Party, Congress and others, is expected to bag just two seats, albeit with a 26% vote share, while Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) may secure just one seat with a 9% vote share.
2019 Lok Sabha election
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling BJP-led NDA secured victory in 64 seats, with BJP alone winning 62 of them. Apna Dal (Sonelal) won the remaining two seats.
The Mahagathbandhan alliance between Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal managed to win 15 seats, while the Congress won the sole Raebareli constituency.
(Edited by : Priyanka Rathi)
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