2014 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

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Indian general election, 2014 (Uttar Pradesh)
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  2009 10 April − 12 May 2014 2019  

80 seats
Turnout58.44% (Increase2.svg10.65%)
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Official portrait of prime minister of India, Narendra Modi (cropped 2).jpg Mulayam Singh Yadav 2019.jpg Rahul Gandhi (portrait crop).jpg
Leader Narendra Modi Mulayam Singh Yadav Rahul Gandhi
Party BJP SP INC
Leader's seat Varanasi Azamgarh
Mainpuri
(Vacated)
Amethi
Last election102321
Seats won7152
Seat changeIncrease2.svg61Decrease2.svg18Decrease2.svg19
Popular vote34,318,85417,988,9676,061,267
Percentage42.63%22.35%7.53%
SwingIncrease2.svg24.80%Decrease2.svg1.06%Decrease2.svg10.75%

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
  Anupriya Singh Patel with PM Modi in 2021.jpg Mayawati.jpg Ajit Singh at press conference.jpg
Leader Anupriya Patel Mayawati Ajit Singh
Party AD BSP RLD
Leader's seat Mirzapur Not Contested Baghpat
(lost)
Last election0205
Seats won200
Seat changeIncrease2.svg2Decrease2.svg20Decrease2.svg5
Popular vote812,32515,914,194689,409
Percentage1.01%19.77%0.86%
SwingN/ADecrease2.svg7.82%N/A

2014 Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha.png

The 2014 Indian general election polls in Uttar Pradesh for 80 Lok Sabha seats was held in six phases on 10, 17, 24, 30 April and 7, 12 May 2014. [1] The total voter strength of Uttar Pradesh was 134,351,297. [2]

Contents

The main political parties in Uttar Pradesh are Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC) and Samajwadi party (SP). BJP allied with Apna Dal and INC allied with Rashtriya Lok Dal and Mahan Dal. [3] [4]

Opinion polling

Conducted in Month(s)RefPolling Organisation/AgencySample size
UPA NDA SP BSP Others
Aug–Oct 2013 [5] Times Now-India TV-CVoter24,28471725310
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 [6] India Today-CVoter21,79243020242
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 [7] ABP News-Nielsen64,006123514154
Jan–Feb 2014 [8] Times Now-India TV-CVoter14,00053420210
Feb 2014 [9] ABP News-Nielsen29,000114013142
March 2014 [10] NDTV- Hansa Research 46,571124013150
March–April 2014 [11] CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS 26334 – 8
42 – 50
11–1710–160–2
30 March – 3 April 2014 [12] India Today-Cicero 14986 – 10
42 – 50
15–219–130–2
April 2014 [13] NDTV- Hansa Research 24,00055114109

Election schedule

Constituency wise Election schedule are given below [1] -

Polling DayPhaseDateConstituenciesVoting Percentage
1310 April Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar,
Bulandshahr, Aligarh
65 [14]
2517 April Nagina, Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Amroha, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur,
Kheri
62 [15]
3624 April Hathras, Mathura, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Hardoi, Farrukhabad, Etawah,
Kannauj, Akbarpur
60.12 [16]
4730 April Dhaurahra, Sitapur, Misrikh, Unnao, Mohanlalganj, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Kanpur Urban, Jalaun, Jhansi,
Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Barabanki
57 [17]
587 May Amethi, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Phulpur, Allahabad, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich,
Kaiserganj, Shrawasti, Gonda, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Bhadohi
55.5 [18]
6912 May Domariyaganj, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushi Nagar, Deoria, Bansgaon, Lalganj, Azamgarh, Ghosi,
Salempur, Ballia, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Robertsganj
55.3 [19]

Results

The BJP won 71 seats, a monumental increase from the 10 seats it won in LS 2009 elections. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) which formed government in UP for four times did not win a single seat in this general elections. [20]

71252
BJPApna DalSPINC
Alliance/PartySeatsPopular vote2nd Position3rd Position
ContestedWon+/−Votes%±pp
NDA Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)7871Increase2.svg 613,43,18,85442.63Increase2.svg 24.8070
Apna Dal 22Increase2.svg 28,12,3151.000
-- Samajwadi Party 785Decrease2.svg 181,79,88,96722.20Decrease2.svg 1.063130
-- Bahujan Samaj Party 800Decrease2.svg 201,59,14,19419.60Decrease2.svg 7.823442
UPA Indian National Congress 662Decrease2.svg 1960,61,2677.50Decrease2.svg 10.7565
Rashtriya Lok Dal 80Decrease2.svg 56,89,4090.86Decrease2.svg2.411

Constituency Wise Results

Keys:    BJP (71)    SP (5)    INC (2)    AD (2)

#ConstituencyWinnerPartyVotesRunner UpPartyVotesMargin
1 Saharanpur Raghav Lakhanpal BJP 4,72,999 INC 4,07,90965,090
2 Kairana Hukum Singh BJP 5,65,909 SP 3,29,0812,36,628
3 Muzaffarnagar Sanjeev Balyan BJP 6,53,391 BSP 2,52,2414,01,150
4 Bijnor Bharatendra Singh BJP 4,86,913 SP 2,81,1392,05,774
5 Nagina (SC) Yashwant Singh BJP 3,67,825 SP 2,75,43592,390
6 Moradabad Kunwar Sarvesh Singh BJP 4,85,224 SP 3,97,72087,504
7 Rampur Naipal Singh BJP 3,58,616 SP 3,35,18123,435
8 Sambhal Satyapal Saini BJP 3,60,242 SP 3,55,0685,174
9 Amroha Kanwar Singh Tanwar BJP 5,28,880 SP 3,70,6661,58,214
10 Meerut Rajendra Agrawal BJP 5,32,981 BSP 3,00,6552,32,326
11 Baghpat Satyapal Singh BJP 4,23,475 SP 2,13,6542,09,866
12 Ghaziabad Vijay Kumar Singh BJP 7,58,482 INC 1,91,2225,67,260
13 Gautam Buddh Nagar Mahesh Sharma BJP 5,99,702 SP 3,19,4902,80,212
14 Bulandshahr (SC) Bhola Singh BJP 6,04,449 BSP 1,82,4764,21,973
15 Aligarh Satish Kumar Gautam BJP 5,14,624 BSP 2,27,8862,86,736
16 Hathras (SC) Rajesh Diwaker BJP 5,44,277 BSP 2,17,8913,26,386
17 Mathura Hema Malini BJP 6,74,633 RLD 2,43,8903,30,743
18 Agra (SC) Ram Shankar Katheria BJP 5,83,716 BSP 2,83,4533,00,263
19 Fatehpur Sikri Babulal Chaudhary BJP 4,26,589 BSP 2,53,4831,73,106
20 Firozabad Akshay Yadav SP 5,34,583 BJP 4,20,5241,14,059
21 Mainpuri Tej Pratap Singh Yadav SP 5,95,918 BJP 2,31,2523,64,666
22 Etah Rajveer Singh BJP 4,74,978 SP 2,73,9772,01,001
23 Badaun Dharmendra Yadav SP 4,98,378 BJP 3,32,0311,66,347
24 Aonla Dharmendra Kashyap BJP 4,09,907 SP 2,71,4781,38,429
25 Bareilly Santosh Gangwar BJP 5,18,258 SP 2,39,8822,40,685
26 Pilibhit Maneka Gandhi BJP 5,25,132 SP 2,89,6033,07,052
27 Shahjahanpur (SC) Krishna Raj BJP 5,25,132 BSP 2,89,6032,35,529
28 Kheri Ajay Mishra Teni BJP 3,98,578 BSP 2,88,3041,10,274
29 Dhaurahra Rekha Verma BJP 3,60,357 BSP 2,34,6821,25,675
30 Sitapur Rajesh Verma BJP 4,17,546 BSP 3,66,51951,027
31 Hardoi (SC) Anshul Verma BJP 3,60,501 BSP 2,79,15881,343
32 Misrikh (SC) Anju Bala BJP 4,12,575 BSP 3,25,21287,363
33 Unnao Sakshi Maharaj BJP 5,18,834 SP 2,08,6613,10,173
34 Mohanlalganj (SC) Kaushal Kishore BJP 4,55,274 BSP 3,09,8581,45,416
35 Lucknow Rajnath Singh BJP 5,61,106 INC 2,88,3572,72,749
36 Rae Bareli Sonia Gandhi INC 5,26,434 BJP 1,73,7213,52,713
37 Amethi Rahul Gandhi INC 4,08,651 BJP 3,00,7481,07,903
38 Sultanpur Feroze Varun Gandhi BJP 4,10,348 BSP 2,31,4461,78,902
39 Pratapgarh Harivansh Singh AD 3,75,789 BSP 2,07,5671,68,222
40 Farrukhabad Mukesh Rajput BJP 4,06,195 SP 2,55,6931,50,502
41 Etawah (SC) Ashok Kumar Doharey BJP 4,31,646 SP 2,66,7001,72,946
42 Kannauj Dimple Yadav SP 4,89,164 BJP 4,69,25619,907
43 Kanpur Murli Manohar Joshi BJP INC 2,22,946
44 Akbarpur Devendra Singh Bhole BJP BSP 2,78,997
45 Jalaun (SC) Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma BJP BSP 2,87,202
46 Jhansi Uma Bharti BJP 5,75,889 SP 3,85,4221,90,467
47 Hamirpur Pushpendra Singh Chandel BJP 4,53,884 SP 1,87,0962,66,788
48 Banda Bhairon Prasad Mishra BJP 3,42,066 BSP 2,26,2781,15,788
49 Fatehpur Niranjan Jyoti BJP BSP 1,87,206
50 Kaushambi (SC) Vinod Sonkar BJP SP 42,900
51 Phulpur Keshav Prasad Maurya BJP SP 3,08,308
52 Allahabad Shyama Charan Gupta BJP SP 62,009
53 Barabanki (SC) Priyanka Singh Rawat BJP 4,54,214 INC 2,42,3362,11,878
54 Faizabad Lallu Singh BJP 4,91,761 SP 2,08,9862,82,775
55 Ambedkar Nagar Hari Om Pandey BJP 4,32,104 BSP 2,92,6751,39,429
56 Bahraich (SC) Savitri Bai Phule BJP 4,32,392 SP 3,36,74795,645
57 Kaiserganj Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh BJP 3,81,500 SP 3,03,28278,218
58 Shravasti Daddan Mishra BJP 3,45,964 SP 2,60,05185,913
59 Gonda Kirti Vardhan Singh BJP 3,70,051 SP 2,84,5111,60,416
60 Domariyaganj Jagdambika Pal BJP 2,98,845 BSP 1,95,2571,03,588
61 Basti Harish Dwivedi BJP 3,57,680 SP 3,24,11833,562
62 Sant Kabir Nagar Sharad Tripathi BJP 3,48,892 BSP 2,50,91497,978
63 Maharajganj Pankaj Choudhary BJP 4,71,542 BSP 2,31,0842,40,458
64 Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath BJP 5,39,127 SP 2,26,3443,12,783
65 Kushi Nagar Rajesh Pandey BJP 3,70,051 INC 2,84,51185,540
66 Deoria Kalraj Mishra BJP 4,96,500 BSP 2,31,1142,65,386
67 Bansgaon (SC) Kamlesh Paswan BJP 4,17,959 BSP 2,28,4431,89,516
68 Lalganj (SC) Neelam Sonkar BJP 3,24,016 SP 2,60,93063,086
69 Azamgarh Mulayam Singh Yadav SP 3,40,306 BJP 2,77,10263,204
70 Ghosi Harinarayan Rajbhar BJP 3,79,797 BSP 2,33,7821,46,015
71 Salempur Ravindra Kushawaha BJP 3,92,213 BSP 3,92,2132,32,342
72 Ballia Bharat Singh BJP 3,59,760 SP 2,20,3241,39,434
73 Jaunpur Krishna Pratap BJP 3,67,149 BSP 2,20,8391,46,310
74 Machhlishahr (SC) Ram Charitra Nishad BJP 4,38,210 BSP 2,66,0551,72,155
75 Ghazipur Manoj Sinha BJP 3,06,929 SP 2,74,47732,452
76 Chandauli Mahendra Nath Pandey BJP 4,14,135 BSP 2,57,3791,56,756
77 Varanasi Narendra Modi BJP 5,81,022 AAP 2,09,2383,71,784
78 Bhadohi Virendra Singh Mast BJP 4,03,695 BSP 2,45,5541,58,039
79 Mirzapur Anupriya Singh Patel AD 4,36,536 BSP 2,17,4572,19,079
80 Robertsganj (SC) Chhotelal BJP 3,78,211 BSP 1,87,7251,90,486

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party Assembly segments Position in Assembly (as of 2017 election)
Bharatiya Janata Party 328312
Bahujan Samaj Party 919
Samajwadi Party 4247
Apna Dal (Sonelal) 99
Indian National Congress 157
Others09
Total403


Region-wise Results

RegionTotal seats Bharatiya Janata Party Samajwadi Party Indian National Congress Bahujan Samaj Party Others
Bundelkhand44Increase2.svg40Decrease2.svg20Decrease2.svg10Decrease2.svg10
Central Uttar Pradesh2420Increase2.svg191Decrease2.svg62Decrease2.svg100Decrease2.svg41
North-East Uttar Pradesh1716Increase2.svg131Decrease2.svg10Decrease2.svg60Decrease2.svg60
Rohilkhand109Increase2.svg71Decrease2.svg30Decrease2.svg20Decrease2.svg10
South-East Uttar Pradesh87Increase2.svg60Decrease2.svg50Steady2.svg0Decrease2.svg21
West Uttar Pradesh1715Increase2.svg122Decrease2.svg10Steady2.svg0Decrease2.svg60
Total8071Increase2.svg615Decrease2.svg182Decrease2.svg190Decrease2.svg202

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