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