2004 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

2004 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

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80 seats
Turnout	48.16% [1]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mulayam Singh Yadav Mayawati Atal Bihari Vajpayee Party SP BSP BJP Leader's seat Mainpuri Akbarpur Lucknow Last election 26 14 29 Seats won 35 19 10 Seat change 9 5 19 Percentage 26.74% 24.67% 22.17% Swing 2.68% 2.59% 5.47%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Sonia Gandhi Ajit Singh Party INC RLD Leader's seat Raebareli Baghpat Last election 10 2 Seats won 9 3 Seat change 1 1 Percentage 12.04% 4.49% Swing 2.68% 2.00%
Prime Minister before election Atal Bihari Vajpayee BJP Prime Minister after election Manmohan Singh INC

The 2004 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh were held between 26 April and 10 May 2004 for the 14th Lok Sabha. The election results were declared on 13 May in which the national parties the BJP and the Congress performed quite badly while the state parties, SP and BSP did very well and fetched majority of the seats. Early polls called by the BJP proved disastrous for the party, although Congress managed to win and form the government at the national level.

Preparation by the Election Commission

The election commission had appointed its total of 240 observers in the state in view of the preparations. ^[2]

The filing of nomination along with voting was carried by the Election Commission in three days as: ^[3]

Poll event	Phase
	I	II	III
Notification date	31 March 2004	8 April 2004	16 April 2004
Last date for filing the nomination	7 April 2004	15 April 2004	23 April 2004
Date of Scrutiny	8 April 2004	16 April 2004	24 April 2004
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	10 April 2004	19 April 2004	26 April 2004
Date of poll	26 April 2004	5 May 2004	10 May 2004
Date of counting	13 May 2004

Voting Phases
I (32 seats)	II (30 seats)	III (18 seats)
Rae Bareli Pratapgarh Amethi Sultanpur Akbarpur Faizabad Bara Banki Kaiserganj Bahraich Balrampur Gonda Basti Domariaganj Khalilabad Bansgaon Gorakhpur Maharajganj Padrauna Deoria Salempur Ballia Ghosi Azamgarh Lalganj Machhlishahr Jaunpur Saidpur Ghazipur Chandauli Varanasi Robertsganj Mirzapur	Kheri Shahabad Sitapur Misrikh Hardoi Lucknow Mohanlalganj Unnao Phulpur Allahabad Chail Fatehpur Banda Hamirpur Jhansi Jalaun Ghatampur Bilhaur Kanpur Etawah Kannauj Farrukhabad Mainpuri Jalesar Etah Firozabad Agra Mathura Hathras Aligarh	Bijnor Amroha Moradabad Rampur Sambhal Budaun Aonla Bareilly Pilibhit Shahjahanpur Khurja Bulandshahr Hapur Meerut Baghpat Muzaffarnagar Kairana Saharanpur

Further the affidavits were filed by the contesting candidates from each seat respectively which were submitted to the Election Commission as mandated. ^[4]

List of Candidates

Constituency
		SP+			BSP			NDA			INC+
1	Bijnor (SC)		RLD	Munshiram s/o Sri Ramcharan Singh		BSP	Ghan Shyam Chandr Kharwar		BJP	Sheeshram Singh Ravi		INC	Jiraj Singh
2	Amroha		RLD	Mahmood Madani		BSP	Aley Hasan		BJP	Chetan Chauhan		INC	Vikram Singh
3	Moradabad		SP	Shafiqur Rahman Barq		BSP	Iftakar Mohammad Khan		BJP	Chandra Vijay Singh
4	Rampur		SP	Jaya Prada		BSP	Afroz Ali Khan		BJP	Rajendra Kumar Sharma		INC	Begum Noor Bano
5	Sambhal		SP	Ram Gopal Yadav		BSP	Tarannum Aqeel		BJP	Omveer Singh		INC	Ashok Yadav
6	Budaun		SP	Saleem Iqbal Shervani		BSP	Prem Pal Singh Yadav		BJP	Brijpal Singh Shakya		INC	Mahboob Husain Ansari
7	Aonla		SP	Rajveer Singh		BSP	Sudhir Kumar Maurya		JD(U)	Sarvraj Singh		INC	Alauddeen Khan
8	Bareilly		SP	Islam Sabir		BSP	Akbar Ahmad Dumpy		BJP	Santosh Gangwar		INC	Praveen Singh Aron
9	Pilibhit		SP	Satyapal Gangwar		BSP	Anis Ahmad Khan alias Phool Babu		BJP	Maneka Gandhi		INC	V. M. Singh
10	Shahjahanpur		SP	Rammurti Singh Verma		BSP	Satyapal Singh Yadav		BJP	Suresh Kumar Khanna		INC	Jitin Prasada
11	Kheri		SP	Ravi Prakash Verma		BSP	Daud Ahmad		BJP	Vinay Katiyar		INC	Rai Singh
12	Shahabad		SP	Babu Khan		BSP	Iliyas Azmi		BJP	Satya Dev Singh		INC	Mradul Shukla
13	Sitapur		SP	Mukhtar Anis		BSP	Rajesh Verma		BJP	Janardan Prasad Mishra		INC	Raja Mohd. Amir Mohd. Khan
14	Misrikh (SC)		SP	Sushila Saroj		BSP	Ashok Kumar Rawat		BJP	Paragi Lal Chau		INC	Ram Lal Rahi
15	Hardoi (SC)		SP	Usha Verma		BSP	Shiv Prasad Verma		BJP	Anita Verma		INC	Chand Ram
16	Lucknow		SP	Madhu Gupta		BSP	Nasir Ali Siddiqui		BJP	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
17	Mohanlalganj (SC)		SP	Jai Prakash		BSP	Radhe Lal		BJP	Mast Ram		INC	Reena Choudhary
18	Unnao		SP	Deepak Kumar		BSP	Brajesh Pathak		BJP	Devi Bux Singh		INC	Shivpal Singh Yadav
19	Rae Bareli		SP	Ashok Kumar Singh		BSP	Rajesh Yadav		BJP	Girish Narayan Panday		INC	Sonia Gandhi
20	Pratapgarh		SP	Akshay Pratap Singh		BSP	Shiv Prakash Mishra "Senani"		BJP	Rama Shankar Singh		INC	Ratna Singh
21	Amethi					BSP	Chandra Parkash Mishra Matiyari		BJP	Ram Vilashdas Vedanti		INC	Rahul Gandhi
22	Sultanpur		SP	Shailendra Pratap Singh		BSP	Mohd. Tahir		BJP	Veena Pandey		INC	Satish Sharma
23	Akbarpur (SC)		SP	Shankhlal Majhi		BSP	Mayawati		BJP	Triveni Ram		INC	Jaisraj Gautam
24	Faizabad		SP	Ashok Kumar Singh		BSP	Mitrasen		BJP	Lallu Singh		INC	Nirmal Khatri
25	Bara Banki (SC)		SP	Ram Sagar		BSP	Kamla Prasad		BJP	Ram Naresh Rawat		INC	Anand Prakash Gautam
26	Kaiserganj		SP	Beni Prasad Verma		BSP	Farid Mahfooz Ki		BJP	Arif Mohammad Khan		INC	Gyanendra Pratap Singh
27	Bahraich		SP	Rubab Sayeda		BSP	Bhagat Ram Mishra		BJP	Padam Sen Chaudhary		INC	D. R. Abdul Rahman Khan
28	Balrampur		SP	Dr. Mohd Umar		BSP	Rizwan Zaheer alias Rijju Bhaya		BJP	Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh		INC	Ekbal Siddiqui
29	Gonda		SP	Kirti Vardhan Singh		BSP	Fazlul Bari		BJP	Ghan Shyam Shukla		INC	Vinay Kumar Pandey alias Binnoo
30	Basti (SC)		SP	Ratnakar Dhusiya		BSP	Lal Mani Prasad		BJP	Sriram Chauhan		INC	Umed Singh
31	Domariaganj		SP	Brij Bhushan Tiwari		BSP	Mohammed Muqueem		BJP	Ram Pal Singh		INC	Jagdambika Pal
32	Khalilabad		SP	Bhishma Shankar Tiwari		BSP	Bhalchandra Yadava		BJP	Ram Prasad Chaudhary
33	Bansgaon (SC)		SP	Subhawati Paswan		BSP	Sadal Prasad		BJP	Raj Narayan		INC	Mahaveer Prasad
34	Gorakhpur		SP	Jamuna Nishad		BSP	Pradeep Kumar Nishad		BJP	Aditya Nath		INC	Shardendu Pandey
35	Maharajganj		SP	Akhilesh		BSP	Talat Ajiz		BJP	Pankaj		INC	Harsh Vardhan
36	Padrauna		SP	Ram Aawad Yadav		BSP	N. P. Kushwaha		BJP	Ram Nagina Mishra		INC	Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
37	Deoria		SP	Mohan Singh		BSP	Devi Prasad		BJP	Sriprakash Mani		INC	Ramashish Rai
38	Salempur		SP	Harikeval Prasad		BSP	Ramashankar Rajbhar		JD(U)	Rajdhari		INC	Bhola Pandey
39	Ballia					BSP	Kapildeo Yadav		BJP	Parmatma Nand Tiwari
40	Ghosi		SP	Chandradeo Prasad Rajbhar		BSP	Bal Krishna		BJP	Bharat Lal Rahi Kushwaha		INC	Sudha Rai
41	Azamgarh		SP	Durga Prasad Yadav		BSP	Ramakant Yadav		BJP	Shah Mohammad		INC	Ram Naresh Yadav
42	Lalganj (SC)		SP	Daroga Saroj		BSP	Dr. Baliram		BJP	Kalpnath		LJP	Deepchandra Visharad
43	Machhlishahr		SP	Chandra Nath Singh		BSP	Umakant Yadav		BJP	Keshari Nath Tripathi		INC	Deovrat Mishra
44	Jaunpur		SP	Parasnath Yadava		BSP	Om Prakash Dubey (Baba Dubey)		BJP	Chinmayanand		LJP	Dhananjay Singh
45	Saidpur (SC)		SP	Tufani Saroj		BSP	R. A. Prasad		BJP	Vidyasagar		INC	Mata Prasad
46	Ghazipur		SP	Afajal Ansari		BSP	Uma Shankar		BJP	Manoj		INC	Shivprakash
47	Chandauli		SP	Anand Ratna Maurya		BSP	Kailash Nath Singh Yadav		BJP	Shashikant Rajbhar		INC	Ashok Singh
48	Varanasi		SP	Anjana Prakash		BSP	Amir Chand Patel		BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal		INC	Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra
49	Robertsganj (SC)		SP	Pakauri Lal		BSP	Lalchandra		BJP	Ram Shakal		INC	Brij Kishor Kanaujiya
50	Mirzapur		SP	Sharda Prasad		BSP	Narendra Kumar Kushwaha		BJP	Veerendra Singh		INC	Rajesh Pati Tripathi
51	Phulpur		SP	Atiq Ahmad		BSP	Keshari Devi Patel		BJP	Beni Madhav Bind		INC	Ram Poojan Patel
52	Allahabad		SP	Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh urf Mani Ji		BSP	R. K. Singh Patel		BJP	Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi		INC	Satya Prakash Malviya
53	Chail (SC)		SP	Shailendra Kumar		BSP	Vachaspati		BJP	Dr. Amrit Lal Bharti		LJP	Shashi Prakash
54	Fatehpur		SP	Achal Singh		BSP	Mahendra Prasad Nishad		BJP	Ashok Patel		INC	Khan Gufran Jahidi
55	Banda		SP	Shyama Charan Gupt		BSP	Ram Sajeevan		BJP	Bhairo Prasad Misra		INC	Prakash Narain
56	Hamirpur		SP	Rajnarayan alias Rajju Mahraj		BSP	Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel		BJP	Surendra Pal Singh		INC	Gangacharan Rajput
57	Jhansi		SP	Chandrapal Singh Yadav		BSP	Babu Lal Kushwaha		BJP	Rajendra Agnihotri		INC	Rajendra Pratap urf Raja Bundela
58	Jalaun (SC)		SP	Ghanshyam Kori		BSP	Brij Lal Khabri		BJP	Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma		INC	Nathuram Verma
59	Ghatampur (SC)		SP	Radhey Shyam Kori		BSP	Pyarelal Sankhwar		BJP	Kamal Rani		INC	Askaran Sankhwar
60	Bilhaur		SP	Lal Singh Tomar		BSP	Raja Ram Pal		BJP	Shyam Bihari Mishra		INC	Madan Mohan Shukla
61	Kanpur		SP	Haji Mushtaq Solanki		BSP	Anubhav		BJP	Satya Dev Pachauri		INC	Shriprakash Jaiswal
62	Etawah		SP	Raghuraj Singh Shakya		BSP	Sudheendra Bhadaurya		BJP	Sarita Bhadauria		INC	Proffesser Rajendra Prasad alias Raju Dixit
63	Kannauj		SP	Akhilesh Yadav		BSP	Th. Rajesh Singh		BJP	Ramanand Yadav		INC	Vinay Kumar Shukla
64	Farrukhabad		SP	Chandra Bhushan Singh		BSP	Nagendra Singh Shakya		BJP	Mukesh Rajput		INC	Louise Khurshid
65	Mainpuri		SP	Mulayam Singh Yadav		BSP	Ashok Shakya		BJP	Balram Singh Yadav		INC	Tha. Rajendra Singh Jadon
66	Jalesar		SP	S. P. Singh Baghel		BSP	Updesh Singh Chauhan		BJP	Pratyendra Pal Singh (Pappu Bhaiya)		INC	Shivraj Singh Yadav
67	Etah		SP	Devendra Singh Yadav		BSP	Ramgopal Shakya		BJP	Ashok Ratan Shakya		INC	Ravindr
68	Firozabad (SC)		SP	Ramji Lal Suman		BSP	Biresh Kumar alias Dadua		BJP	Kishori Lal Mahaur		INC	Dr. Shivnarain Gautam
69	Agra		SP	Raj Babbar		BSP	Pandit Keshav Prasad Dixit		BJP	Murari Lal Mittal Fatehpuria		INC	Surendra Singh
70	Mathura		RLD	Dr. Gyanvati Singh		BSP	Choudhary Laxminarayan		BJP	Choudhary Tejveer Singh		INC	Manvendra Singh
71	Hathras (SC)		SP	Vimla Pal		BSP	Ram Vir Singh Bhaiyaji		BJP	Kishan Lal Diler		INC	Mukesh Kumar
72	Aligarh		RLD	Dalveer Singh		BSP	Thakur Jaiveer Singh		BJP	Sheela Gautam		INC	Bijendra Singh
73	Khurja (SC)		RLD	Ram Niwas Balmiki		BSP	Ravi Gautam		BJP	Ashok Kumar Pradhan		INC	Devi Dayal
74	Bulandshahr		RLD	Badrul Islam		BSP	Devendra Bhardwaj		BJP	Kalyan Singh		INC	Pt. Chandra Shekhar Sharma
75	Hapur		RLD	Trilok Tyagi		BSP	Kunwar Ayyub Ali		BJP	Ramesh Chand Tomar		INC	Surendra Prakash Goel
76	Meerut		RLD	Malook Nagar		BSP	Mohammed Shahid Akhlaq		JD(U)	K. C. Tyagi		INC	K. K. Sharma
77	Baghpat		RLD	Ajit Singh		BSP	Aulad Ali		BJP	Satya Pal Malik		INC	Jagveer
78	Muzaffarnagar		SP	Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan		BSP	Suratsingh Verma		BJP	Amar Pal Singh		INC	S. Saiduzzaman
79	Kairana		RLD	Anuradha Choudhary		BSP	Shahnawaz		BJP	Amarkant Rana		INC	Subhash Chand Maheshwari
80	Saharanpur		SP	Rasheed Masood		BSP	Mansoor Ali Khan		BJP	Ch. Yashpal Singh		INC	Tara Chandra Shastri

Campaigning and Seat Alliances

The BJP in its party manifesto included building Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya as a part of ‘Vision Document’. ^[5] The party had hoped that section of the public would believe there is no alternate to PM Vajpayee with the slogan: Kaho dil se, Atal phir se and would ultimately help in certain seats. ^[6]

The table shows seat allotments alliance and party wise: ^[7]

Alliance/Party				Flag	Symbol	Seats contested
	National Democratic Alliance		Bharatiya Janata Party			77	80
			JD(U)			3
	SP+ [8]		Samajwadi Party			70	80
			Rashtriya Lok Dal		Hand pump	10
	INC+		Indian National Congress			73	76
			Lok Janshakti Party			3
	Third Front		Communist Party of India (Marxist)			2	8
			Communist Party of India			6

The BSP had contested all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state. ^[9]

Voting

The total voting percentage was recorded at 48.16 for all the three phases with 11,06,24,490 electorate casting their votes. ^[10] 63 seats were reserved for the general caste while remaining 17 for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. ^{[11] [12]}

Results Party/Alliance Wise

The biggest gainer in the election was the Samajwadi Party which alone won 35 seats ^[13] and its alliance partner RLD won 3 seats in western Uttar Pradesh. The SP alliance won almost half the seats from the state. ^[14] SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav won from Mainpuri by a huge difference. ^[15]

Perhaps the biggest loser was the BJP which was reduced to just 10 seats from previous 25 seats in 1999 general election from the state even though Vajpayee won comfortably from Lucknow. ^[8] Important state party leaders Maneka Gandhi and Yogi Adityanath were elected from Pilibhit and Gorakhpur respectively. The party’s India Shining campaign backfired badly for the party and they lost a substantial number of seats. ^[5]

Another national party Congress did not gained in the state and was limited to just 9 seats although their national party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi won from Raebareli and Amethi. ^{[15] [13]}

The BSP registered its victory in 19 seats.

Vote share Party wise ^[16]

1. SP (26.7%)
2. BSP (24.7%)
3. BJP (22.2%)
4. INC (12.0%)
5. RLD (4.49%)
6. IND (3.81%)
7. Others (6.08%)

Seats Party wise

1. SP (43.8%)
2. BSP (23.8%)
3. BJP (12.5%)
4. INC (11.2%)
5. RLD (3.75%)
6. IND (1.25%)
7. Others (3.75%)

Constituency Wise Results

The detailed results per seat wise based on winning candidates is mentioned in table below: ^[17]

35	19	10	9	3	4
SP	BSP	BJP	INC	RLD	IND and Others

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Bijnor (SC)	Munshiram		RLD	301,599	42.74	Ghan Shyam Chandr Kharwar		BSP	221,424	31.37	80,175	11.36
2	Amroha	Harish Nagpal		IND	287,522	32.48	Mahmood Madni		RLD	269,638	30.46	17,884	2.02
3	Moradabad	Dr. Shafiqurrahman Barq		SP	218,079	33.29	Chandra Vijay Singh Urf Baby Raja		BJP	182,239	27.82	35,840	5.47
4	Rampur	P. Jaya Prada Nahata		SP	289,390	35.70	Bagum Noor Bano		INC	203,916	25.16	85,474	10.54
5	Sambhal	Pro. Ram Gopal Yadav		SP	357,049	47.02	Tarannum Aqeel		BSP	158,988	20.94	198,061	26.08
6	Budaun	Saleem Iqbal Shervani		SP	265,713	45.04	Brijpal Singh Shakya		BJP	214,391	36.34	51,322	8.70
7	Aonla	Kunwar Sarvraj Singh		JD(U)	153,322	28.58	Rajveer Singh		SP	146,451	27.30	6,871	1.28
8	Bareilly	Santosh Gangwar		BJP	269,651	32.77	Akbar Ahmed Dempi		BSP	210,007	25.52	59,644	7.25
9	Pilibhit	Maneka Gandhi		BJP	255,615	37.75	Satyapal Gangwar		SP	152,895	22.58	102,720	15.17
10	Shahjahanpur	Kunwar Jitin Prasad		INC	220,763	34.83	Ram Murti Singh Verma		SP	138,931	21.92	81,832	12.91
11	Kheri	Ravi Prakash Verma		SP	224,602	31.78	Daud Ahmad		BSP	212,842	30.12	11,760	1.66
12	Shahabad	Iliyas Azmi		BSP	210,171	36.26	Satya Dev Singh		BJP	163,802	28.26	46,369	8.00
13	Sitapur	Rajesh Verma		BSP	171,733	28.79	Mukhtar Anees		SP	166,499	27.91	5,234	0.88
14	Misrikh (SC)	Ashok Kumar Rawat		BSP	207,062	37.59	Sushila Saroj		SP	187,659	34.07	19,403	3.52
15	Hardoi (SC)	Usha Verma		SP	203,445	38.97	Shiv Prasad Verma		BSP	164,242	31.46	39,203	7.51
16	Lucknow	Atal Bihari Vajpayee		BJP	324,714	56.12	Madhu Gupta		SP	106,339	18.38	218,375	37.74
17	Mohanlalganj (SC)	Jai Prakash		SP	148,578	25.98	Radhe Lal		BSP	146,010	25.53	2,568	0.45
18	Unnao	Brajesh Pathak		BSP	178,366	32.57	Deepak Kumar		SP	160,605	29.33	17,761	3.24
19	Rae Bareli	Sonia Gandhi		INC	378,107	58.75	Ashok Kumar Singh		SP	128,342	19.94	249,765	38.81
20	Pratapgarh	Akshay Pratap Singh "Gopal Ji"		SP	238,137	41.59	Rajkumari Ratna Singh		INC	168,865	29.49	69,272	12.10
21	Amethi	Rahul Gandhi		INC	390,179	66.18	Chandra Parkash Mishra Matiyari		BSP	99,326	16.85	290,853	49.33
22	Sultanpur	Mohd. Tahir		BSP	261,564	36.28	Shailendra Pratap Singh		SP	159,754	22.16	101,810	14.12
23	Akbarpur (SC)	Maya Wati		BSP	325,019	43.83	Shankh Lal Manjhi		SP	266,750	35.97	58,269	7.86
24	Faizabad	Mitrasen		BSP	207,285	30.19	Lallu Singh		BJP	173,799	25.31	33,486	4.88
25	Bara Banki (SC)	Kamla Prasad		BSP	196,370	36.35	Ram Sagar		SP	175,448	32.48	20,922	3.87
26	Kaiserganj	Beni Prasad Verma		SP	219,920	38.59	Arif Mohammad Khan		BJP	207,260	36.36	12,660	2.22
27	Bahraich	Rubab Sayeda		SP	188,949	34.38	Bhagat Ram Mishra		BSP	162,615	29.59	26,334	4.79
28	Balrampur	Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh		BJP	270,941	38.81	Rizwan Zaheer Alias Rijju Bhaya		BSP	218,328	31.27	52,613	7.54
29	Gonda	Kirti Vardhan Singh Alias Raja Bhaiya		SP	251,947	41.53	Ghan Shyam Shukla		BJP	214,949	35.43	36,998	6.10
30	Basti (SC)	Lal Mani Prasad		BSP	155,223	26.93	Sriram Chauhan		BJP	129,849	22.53	25,374	4.40
31	Domariaganj	Mohd. Muqueem		BSP	202,544	31.49	Jagdambika Pal		INC	149,642	23.27	52,902	8.23
32	Khalilabad	Bhalchandra Yadava		BSP	234,712	33.50	Bhishma Shankar Tiwari		SP	207,689	29.64	27,023	3.86
33	Bansgaon (SC)	Mahaveer Prasad		INC	180,388	28.54	Sadal Prasad		BSP	163,947	25.94	16,441	2.60
34	Gorakhpur	Aditya Nath		BJP	353,647	51.31	Jamuna Nishad		SP	211,608	30.70	142,039	20.61
35	Maharajganj	Pankaj		BJP	228,702	30.63	Akhilesh		SP	163,903	21.95	64,799	8.68
36	Padrauna	Baleshwar Yadav		NLP	206,850	26.18	Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh		INC	198,428	25.12	8,422	1.07
37	Deoria	Mohan Singh		SP	237,664	32.57	Sriprakash Mani		BJP	185,438	25.41	52,226	7.16
38	Salempur	Harikeval Prasad		SP	195,570	29.21	Bhola Pandey		INC	179,317	26.78	16,253	2.43
39	Ballia	Chandra Shekhar		SJP(R)	270,136	43.59	Kapildeo Yadav		BSP	189,082	30.51	81,054	13.08
40	Ghosi	Chandradeo Prasad Rajbhar		SP	201,468	27.92	Bal Krishna		BSP	180,456	25.01	21,012	2.91
41	Azamgarh	Ramakant Yadav		BSP	258,216	36.30	Durga Prasad Yadav		SP	251,248	35.32	6,968	0.98
42	Lalganj (SC)	Daroga Prasad Saroj		SP	283,473	37.12	Dr. Baliram		BSP	240,742	31.53	42,731	5.60
43	Machhlishahr	Umakant Yadav		BSP	237,438	35.10	Chandra Nath Singh		SP	182,056	26.92	55,382	8.19
44	Jaunpur	Parasnath Yadava		SP	219,614	30.80	Om Prakash Dubey (Baba Dubey)		BSP	192,489	27.00	27,125	3.80
45	Saidpur (SC)	Tufani Saroj		SP	231,989	32.61	R A Prasad		BSP	202,179	28.42	29,810	4.19
46	Ghazipur	Afajal Ansari		SP	415,687	47.82	Manoj		BJP	188,910	21.73	226,777	26.09
47	Chandauli	Kailash Nath Singh Yadav		BSP	204,625	29.05	Anand Ratna Maurya		SP	202,956	28.81	1,669	0.24
48	Varanasi	Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra		INC	206,904	32.68	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal		BJP	149,468	23.61	57,436	9.07
49	Robertsganj (SC)	Lalchandra		BSP	189,521	26.15	Pakauri Lal		SP	179,159	24.72	10,362	1.43
50	Mirzapur	Narendra Kumar Kushwaha		BSP	201,942	27.74	Veerendra Singh		BJP	165,530	22.74	36,412	5.00
51	Phulpur	Atique Ahamad		SP	265,432	35.15	Keshari Devi Patel		BSP	201,085	26.63	64,347	8.52
52	Allahabad	Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh Urf Mani Ji		SP	234,008	35.64	Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi		BJP	205,625	31.32	28,383	4.32
53	Chail (SC)	Shailendra Kumar		SP	196,206	35.33	Vachaspati		BSP	195,576	35.22	630	0.11
54	Fatehpur	Mahendra Prasad Nishad		BSP	163,568	32.28	Achal Singh		SP	111,000	21.91	52,568	10.37
55	Banda	Shyama Charan Gupt		SP	185,099	35.17	Ram Sajeevan		BSP	128,795	24.47	56,304	10.70
56	Hamirpur	Rajnarayan Alias Rajju Mahraj		SP	220,917	36.57	Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel		BSP	183,763	30.42	37,154	6.15
57	Jhansi	Chandrapal Singh Yadav		SP	238,782	29.13	Babu Lal Kushwaha		BSP	212,483	25.92	26,299	3.21
58	Jalaun (SC)	Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma		BJP	195,228	33.67	Ghanshyam Kori		SP	168,437	29.05	26,791	4.62
59	Ghatampur (SC)	Radhey Shyam Kori		SP	160,117	31.72	Pyarelal Sankhwar		BSP	149,805	29.68	10,312	2.04
60	Bilhaur	Raja Ram Pal		BSP	223,195	34.80	Lal Singh Tomar		SP	198,793	30.99	24,402	3.80
61	Kanpur	Shriprakash Jaiswal		INC	211,109	34.12	Satya Dev Pachauri		BJP	205,471	33.21	5,638	0.91
62	Etawah	Raghuraj Singh Shakya		SP	367,807	52.25	Sarita Bhadauria		BJP	177,650	25.24	190,157	27.01
63	Kannauj	Akhilesh Yadav		SP	464,367	61.21	Th. Rajesh Singh		BSP	156,994	20.69	307,373	40.52
64	Farrukhabad	Chandra Bhushan Singh (Munnoo Babu)		SP	176,129	26.47	Louise Khurshid		INC	173,384	26.06	2,745	0.41
65	Mainpuri	Mulayam Singh Yadav		SP	460,470	63.96	Ashok Shakya		BSP	122,600	17.03	337,870	46.93
66	Jalesar	Pro. S.P Singh Baghel		SP	287,091	44.14	Pratyendra Pal Singh (Pappu Bhaiya)		BJP	181,023	27.83	106,068	16.31
67	Etah	Ku. Devendra Singh Yadav		SP	276,156	47.04	Ashok Ratan Shakya		BJP	224,821	38.29	51,335	8.74
68	Firozabad (SC)	Ram Ji Lal Suman		SP	212,383	39.97	Kishori Lal Mahaur		BJP	157,595	29.66	54,788	10.31
69	Agra	Raj Babbar		SP	243,094	37.82	Murari Lal Mittal Fatehpuria		BJP	185,752	28.90	57,342	8.92
70	Mathura	Manvendra Singh		INC	187,400	31.12	Choudhary Laxminarayan		BSP	149,268	24.79	38,132	6.33
71	Hathras (SC)	Kishan Lal Diler		BJP	175,049	35.57	Ram Vir Singh Bhaiyaji		BSP	152,212	30.93	22,837	4.64
72	Aligarh	Bijendra Singh		INC	167,142	26.38	Sheela Gautam		BJP	164,351	25.94	2,791	0.44
73	Khurja (SC)	Ashok Kumar Pradhan		BJP	214,701	35.74	Ravi Gautam		BSP	173,551	28.89	41,150	6.85
74	Bulandshahr	Kalyan Singh		BJP	258,284	37.69	Badrul Islam		RLD	241,633	35.26	16,651	2.43
75	Hapur	Surendra Prakash Goyal		INC	235,114	29.40	Ramesh Chand Tomar		BJP	192,751	24.10	42,363	5.30
76	Meerut	Mohd. Shahid		BSP	252,518	36.20	Malook Nagar		RLD	183,182	26.26	69,336	9.94
77	Baghpat	Ajit Singh		RLD	353,181	53.76	Aulad Ali		BSP	132,543	20.18	220,638	33.59
78	Muzaffarnagar	Ch. Munawwar Hasan		SP	306,225	35.51	Amarpal Singh		BJP	237,220	27.51	69,005	8.00
79	Kairana	Anuradha Choudhary		RLD	523,923	64.15	Shahnawaz		BSP	181,509	22.22	342,414	41.93
80	Saharanpur	Rasheed Masood		SP	353,272	35.67	Mansoor Ali Khan		BSP	326,444	32.96	26,828	2.71

Assembly segments-wise lead of parties

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2007 election)
	Samajwadi Party	160	97
	Bahujan Samaj Party	100	206
	Bharatiya Janata Party	60	51
	Indian National Congress	47	22
	Rashtriya Lok Dal	22	10
	Janata Dal (United)	4	1
	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	3	0
	National Loktantrik Party	2	0
	Apna Dal	1	0
	Others	4	16
Total		403

Post Result Analysis

The result showed that both the national parties, BJP and the Congress were rejected by the state voters with the opinion poll proved equally wrong. ^[18] The state electorate seems to have upright rejected ‘’India shining’’ slogan coined by the BJP owing to its dismal performance. The party downward slide continued in numbers way lower than what when it had registered the victory in more than 50 seats in the state in subsequent 1991, 1996 and 1998 elections. ^[19] The decision for calling snap polls by the Vajpayee govt proved very costly for the party. The tally in the state was the lowest since 1989 election. ^[20] Notable state BJP leaders including union ministers Murli Manohar Joshi and Swami Chinmayanand, state assembly speaker Keshari Nath Tripathi and Uttar Pradesh party unit chief Vinay Katiyar were all defeated. The Ram temple issue also did not help as its party candidate Laloo Singh was defeated at Faizabad by BSP’s Mitrasen Yadav. The party failed to win even a single seat in Kashi (Varanasi) region which had 13 Lok Sabha seats. Another BJP prominent leader and ex-CM Kalyan Singh was able to win from Bulandshahr by a small margin of around 6500 votes but the party lost Aligarh, Singh’s hometown to the Congress.

In spite of campaigning by Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party was restricted to only 9 seats. The Congress lost Rampur, Meerut, Pratapgarh and Muzaffarnagar, but for the first time in a decade made victories in Poorvanchal (eastern) region by capturing Varanasi and Bansgaon seats.

The regional party, SP did quite well in the state, particularly in the eastern region and winning seats in the Bundelkhand region where it previously went blank in 1999 election. The alliance with the RLD proved fruitful in the western UP where Muslim-Jat-Yadav combined voted for the SP-RLD alliance.

Apart from it BSP also performed well with consolidation of dalit votes resulting in winning 19 seats from 14 before even in absence of party leader Kanshi Ram and Mayawati taking the charge thereof. Party strategy of fielding a large number of Muslims and upper caste candidates proved to be beneficial for the party. ^[8] Although the party had lost election deposit in 11 contesting seats. ^[9]

It was also determined by ‘Centre for the Study of Developing Societies’ that the majority of the people did not voted keeping in mind the negative statements about their leader or parties to whom they are supporting. ^[21]

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External links

• Election Commission of India
• State Election Commission Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow