In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, ‘UP Ke Ladke’ worked well for the Opposition INDIA Bloc while the ‘labharthi’ and Ram Temple failed to deliver for the Bharatiya Janata Party. Uttar Pradesh, which had accounted for a lion's share of the BJP's tally in Lok Sabha since 2014, proved to be a tough challenge in the 2024 election.
According to the latest Election Commission of India figures, the INDIA Bloc won 43 out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP.
The INDIA Bloc’s Samajwadi Party won 37 seats and Congress six. The BJP-led NDA won 36 which includes BJP 33, Rashtriya Lok Dal 2, Apna Dal (S) 1. Chandrashekhar of the Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) has won from Nagina (SC) constituency.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh for a third time. He defeated Congress' Ajay Rai by over 1.5 lakh votes. Modi won the Varanasi seat for the third time in a row, defeating Congress contender Ajay Rai. Modi's victory margin this time is 1,52,513, which is less than in 2019 and 2014.
The INDIA Bloc parties led by the Samajwadi Party won Muzaffarnagar, Rampur, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Aonla, Kheri, Dhaurahra, Pratapgarh, Jalaun, Kaushambi, Basti, Lalganj, (SC) Azamgarh, Chandauli, Kairana.
The other seats that the SP won are Sambhal, Etah, Budaun, Mohanlalganj, Sultanpur, Farrukhabad, Etawah, Kannauj, Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Shravasti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Ghosi, Salempur, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr, Ghazipur, Robertsganj, The Congress won Allahababd, Barabanki, Saharanpur, Sitapur, Rai Bareli, and Amethi.
Lallu Singh, the incumbent Faizabad MP from the BJP conceded defeat to the Samajwadi Party candidate Awadhesh Prasad, saying “Hum aapka samman nahi bacha paaye” (we could not save your respect).” This is significant, as Faizabad constituency covers Ayodhya and the Ram temple was a major poll plank for the BJP.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won the Rae Bareli seat by a margin of 4 lakh votes defeating BJP candidate Dinesh Singh. Union Minister of state Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ lost in the Kheri constituency in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 25,494 votes. He was defeated by Samajwadi Party candidate Utkarsh Verma ‘Madhur’.
Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav won from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency, retaining the traditional party bastion. She won by a margin of 1,99,175 votes, defeating Jaiveer Singh, a minister in the Yogi Adityanath-led UP government.
Uttar Pradesh, the BJP's big bastion in the past two general elections, witnessed epic neck-and-neck battle between the ruling NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc comprising Samajwadi Party and Congress.
Among the key Lok Sabha candidates in Uttar Pradesh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav were leading from the Lucknow, Rae Bareli, and Kannauj Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Union ministers Smriti Irani, senior BJP leader Maneka Gandhi lost to the Samajwadi Party rivals in Amethi and Sultanpur, Union minister of state Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal (S)) won from Mirzapur.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA won 62 and two seats by its ally Apna Dal (S) of the 80 seats, while the BSP and Samajwadi Party, then allies, won 10 and five seats, respectively.
Ramesh Awasthi of BJP has been elected the Member of Parliament from the Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday. He defeated the INDIA bloc candidate Alok Mishra of Congress Party in a neck-to-neck fight by over 20,000 votes.
His victory was not taken as a cakewalk as till the end of the counting, he was seen in close contest with the INDIA bloc candidate Alok Mishra.
The BJP candidate from Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency in Kanpur Dehat district Devendra Singh Bhole also made a hat trick by winning the election by 61,700 votes. He defeated the INDIA bloc candidate Rajaram Pal of Samajwadi Party.
In Allahabad Ujjwal Raman Singh of the Congress wrested the seat from BJP. He defeated BJP's Neeraj Tripathi by about 45,000 votes. Kavita Yadav Tripathi, wife of BJP candidate Neeraj Tripathi had given up after the 20th round of counting in the afternoon itself.
