2014 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

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]

Indian general election, 2014 (Uttar Pradesh)

10 April − 12 May 2014
80 seats
Turnout	58.44%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Narendra Modi Mulayam Singh Yadav Rahul Gandhi Party Bharatiya Janata Party Samajwadi Party Indian National Congress Leader's seat Varanasi Azamgarh Mainpuri (Vacated) Amethi Last election 10 23 21 Seats won 71 5 2 Seat change 61 18 19 Popular vote 3,43,18,854 1,79,88,967 60,61,267 Percentage 42.63% 22.35% 7.53%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Anupriya Patel Mayawati Ajit Singh Party Apna Dal (Sonelal) Bahujan Samaj Party Rashtriya Lok Dal Leader's seat Mirzapur Not Contested Baghpat (lost) Last election 0 20 5 Seats won 2 0 0 Seat change 2 20 5 Popular vote 8,12,325 1,59,14,194 6,89,409 Percentage 1.01% 19.77% 0.86%
Uttar Pradesh

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)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency	Sample size
				UPA	NDA	Third Front	BSP	Others
Aug–Oct 2013	[5]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	24,284	7	17	25	31	0
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014	[6]	India Today-CVoter	21,792	4	30	20	24	2
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014	[7]	ABP News-Nielsen	64,006	12	35	14	15	4
Jan–Feb 2014	[8]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	14,000	5	34	20	21	0
Feb 2014	[9]	ABP News-Nielsen	29,000	11	40	13	14	2
March 2014	[10]	NDTV- Hansa Research	46,571	12	40	13	15	0
March–April 2014	[11]	CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS	2633	4 – 8	42 – 50	11–17	10–16	0–2
30 March – 3 April 2014	[12]	India Today-Cicero	1498	6 – 10	42 – 50	15–21	9–13	0–2
April 2014	[13]	NDTV- Hansa Research	24,000	5	51	14	10	9

Election schedule

Constituency wise Election schedule are given below[1]-

Polling Day	Phase	Date	Constituencies	Voting Percentage
1	3	10 April	Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahr, Aligarh	65[14]
2	5	17 April	Nagina, Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Amroha, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Kheri	62[15]
3	6	24 April	Hathras, Mathura, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Hardoi, Farrukhabad, Etawah, Kannauj, Akbarpur	60.12[16]
4	7	30 April	Dhaurahra, Sitapur, Misrikh, Unnao, Mohanlalganj, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Kanpur Urban, Jalaun, Jhansi, Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Barabanki	57[17]
5	8	7 May	Amethi, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Phulpur, Allahabad, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Kaiserganj, Shrawasti, Gonda, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Bhadohi	55.5[18]
6	9	12 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. For the first time in the history of Independent India, Uttar Pradesh did not send a single Muslim to the Lok Sabha.[20]

71	2	5	2
Bjp	Apna Dal	SP	INC'

Name of Party	Alliance	Vote Share %	Change	Seats Contested	Seats won	Changes
Bharatiya Janata Party	National Democratic Alliance	42.30	24.80	78	71	61
Samajwadi Party	Third Front	22.20	1.06	78	5	18
Bahujan Samaj Party	–	19.60	7.82	80	0	20
Indian National Congress	United Progressive Alliance	7.50	10.75	66	2	19
Apna Dal	National Democratic Alliance	1.00		2	2	2
Rashtriya Lok Dal	United Progressive Alliance			8	0	5

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

No.	Constituency	Name of elected M.P.	Party affiliation
1	Saharanpur	Raghav Lakhanpal	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Kairana	Hukum Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Muzaffarnagar	Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	Bijnor	Kunwar Bharatendra Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	Nagina	Yashwant Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
6	Moradabad	Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
7	Rampur	Nepal Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
8	Sambhal	Satyapal Singh Saini	Bharatiya Janata Party
9	Amroha	Kanwar Singh Tanwar	Bharatiya Janata Party
10	Meerut	Rajendra Agrawal	Bharatiya Janata Party
11	Baghpat	Satyapal Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
12	Ghaziabad	Vijay Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
13	Gautam Buddh Nagar	Mahesh Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
14	Bulandshahr	Bhola Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
15	Aligarh	Satish Kumar Gautam	Bharatiya Janata Party
16	Hathras	Rajesh Kumar Diwaker	Bharatiya Janata Party
17	Mathura	Hema Malini	Bharatiya Janata Party
18	Agra	Ram Shankar Katheria	Bharatiya Janata Party
19	Fatehpur Sikri	Choudhary Babulal	Bharatiya Janata Party
20	Firozabad	Akshay Yadav	Samajwadi Party
21	Mainpuri	Tej Pratap Singh Yadav	Samajwadi Party
22	Etah	Rajveer Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
23	Badaun	Dharmendra Yadav	Samajwadi Party
24	Aonla	Dharmendra Kashyap	Bharatiya Janata Party
25	Bareilly	Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Bharatiya Janata Party
26	Pilibhit	Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
27	Shahjahanpur	Krishna Raj	Bharatiya Janata Party
28	Kheri	Ajay Kumar Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
29	Dhaurahra	Rekha Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party
30	Sitapur	Rajesh Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party
31	Hardoi	Anshul Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party
32	Misrikh	Anju Bala	Bharatiya Janata Party
33	Unnao	Sakshi Maharaj	Bharatiya Janata Party
34	Mohanlalganj	Kaushal Kishore	Bharatiya Janata Party
35	Lucknow	Rajnath Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
36	Rae Bareli	Sonia Gandhi	Indian National Congress
37	Amethi	Rahul Gandhi	Indian National Congress
38	Sultanpur	Feroze Varun Gandhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
39	Pratapgarh	Kumar Harivansh Singh	Apna Dal
40	Farrukhabad	Mukesh Rajput	Bharatiya Janata Party
41	Etawah	Ashok Kumar Dohre	Bharatiya Janata Party
42	Kannauj	Dimple Yadav	Samajwadi Party
43	Kanpur	Murli Manohar Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party
44	Akbarpur	Devendra Singh Bhole	Bharatiya Janata Party
45	Jalaun	Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party
46	Jhansi	Uma Bharti	Bharatiya Janata Party
47	Hamirpur	Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel	Bharatiya Janata Party
48	Banda	Bhairon Prasad Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
49	Fatehpur	Niranjan Jyoti	Bharatiya Janata Party
50	Kaushambi	Vinod Kumar Sonkar	Bharatiya Janata Party
51	Phulpur	Keshav Prasad Maurya	Bharatiya Janata Party
52	Allahabad	Shyama Charan Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party
53	Barabanki	Priyanka Singh Rawat	Bharatiya Janata Party
54	Faizabad	Lallu Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
55	Ambedkar Nagar	Hari Om Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party
56	Bahraich	Savitri Bai Phule	Bharatiya Janata Party
57	Kaiserganj	Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
58	Shrawasti	Daddan Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
59	Gonda	Kirti Vardhan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
60	Domariyaganj	Jagdambika Pal	Bharatiya Janata Party
61	Basti	Harish Dwivedi	Bharatiya Janata Party
62	Sant Kabir Nagar	Sharad Tripathi	Bharatiya Janata Party
63	Maharajganj	Pankaj Choudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party
64	Gorakhpur	Yogi Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
65	Kushi Nagar	Rajesh Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party
66	Deoria	Kalraj Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
67	Bansgaon	Kamlesh Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party
68	Lalganj	Neelam Sonkar	Bharatiya Janata Party
69	Azamgarh	Mulayam Singh Yadav	Samajwadi Party
70	Ghosi	Harinarayan Rajbhar	Bharatiya Janata Party
71	Salempur	Ravindra Kushawaha	Bharatiya Janata Party
72	Ballia	Bharat Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
73	Jaunpur	Krishna Pratap	Bharatiya Janata Party
74	Machhlishahr	Ram Charitra Nishad	Bharatiya Janata Party
75	Ghazipur	Manoj Sinha	Bharatiya Janata Party
76	Chandauli	Mahendra Nath Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party
77	Varanasi	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
78	Bhadohi	Virendra Singh Mast	Bharatiya Janata Party
79	Mirzapur	Anupriya Singh Patel	Apna Dal
80	Robertsganj	Chhotelal	Bharatiya Janata Party

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