Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 For Uttar Pradesh: Full List of Winning Candidates

Here is the full list of winningcandidates of main political parties contesting Lok Sabha elections 2019 in Uttar Pradesh.

Lucknow: The results of the 80 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh have been declared, and the Bharatiya Janata Party has bagged 62 seats, defying all the equations that were speculated after the alliance of arch-rivals Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

Rahul Gandhi suffered a shocking loss from Amethi, at the hands of Smriti Irani (BJP) who was touted as a tough competitor to Congress president since the last Lok Sabha Elections.

The voting for the 80 parliamentary seats took place in all seven phases of Lok Sabha elections, starting April 11 till May 19. Uttar Pradesh which sends the most number of representatives in parliament witnessed triangular contest amongst BJP, SP, and BSP.

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On January 12, 2019, once arch-rivals Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party announced their tie-up in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, sharing 38 seats each and keeping the Congress out of the alliance. The parties, however, said they would not field candidates in Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. After being left out by the SP-BSP alliance, the Congress announced to go it alone in Uttar Pradesh and contest on all Lok Sabha seats, except 7.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) later joined hands with the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections. The RLD contested on three of the 80 seats in the state.

In the 2014 general election, the BJP had won 71 seats, its ally Apna Dal bagged two, the Samajwadi Party five and the Congress just two, while the BSP drew a blank.

Meanwhile, exit polls predicted that the SP-BSP alliance was likely to race ahead of the BJP in the state. In 2014, the BJP and Apna Dal managed to win 71 of the 80 seats in 2014 though, by 2019, the number was slightly down to 68 with defeats in last year’s by-polls. The CVoter-Republic forecast gave the grand alliance in UP 40 seats against 38 for the NDA, while the Jan Ki Baat said the NDA may win 46-57 seats against 15-29 of the SP-BSP combine.

ABP News predicted a huge loss for the BJP, saying it may get only 22 seats while the Opposition alliance may emerge victorious in 56 constituencies.