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
Turnout58.44% (10.65%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Narendra Modi Mulayam Singh Yadav Rahul Gandhi
Party BJP SP INC
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 34,318,854 17,988,967 6,061,267
Percentage 42.63% 22.35% 7.53%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Anupriya Patel Mayawati Ajit Singh
Party AD(S) BSP RLD
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 812,325 15,914,194 689,409
Percentage 1.01% 19.77% 0.86%

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 24,28471725310
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 [6] India Today-CVoter 21,79243020242
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 [7] ABP News-Nielsen 64,006123514154
Jan–Feb 2014 [8] Times Now-India TV-CVoter 14,00053420210
Feb 2014 [9] ABP News-Nielsen 29,000114013142
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 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 PartyAllianceVote Share %ChangeSeats ContestedSeats wonChanges
Bharatiya Janata PartyNational Democratic Alliance42.30 24.807871 61
Samajwadi PartyThird Front22.20 1.06785 18
Bahujan Samaj Party–19.60 7.82800 20
Indian National CongressUnited Progressive Alliance7.50 10.75662 19
Apna DalNational Democratic Alliance1.0022 2
Rashtriya Lok DalUnited Progressive Alliance80 5

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

No. Constituency Turnout% Name of elected M.P. Party affiliation Margin
1 Saharanpur 74.26 Raghav Lakhanpal Bharatiya Janata Party 65,090
2 Kairana 73.10 Hukum Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 2,36,628
3 Muzaffarnagar 69.74 Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Bharatiya Janata Party 4,01,150
4 Bijnor 67.88 Kunwar Bharatendra Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 2,05,774
5 Nagina (SC) 63.12 Yashwant Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 92,390
6 Moradabad 63.66 Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 87,504
7 Rampur 59.27 Nepal Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 23,435
8 Sambhal 62.43 Satyapal Singh Saini Bharatiya Janata Party 5,174
9 Amroha 70.97 Kanwar Singh Tanwar Bharatiya Janata Party 1,58,214
10 Meerut 63.12 Rajendra Agrawal Bharatiya Janata Party 2,32,326
11 Baghpat 66.75 Satyapal Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 2,09,866
12 Ghaziabad 56.94 Vijay Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 5,67,260
13 Gautam Buddh Nagar 60.39 Mahesh Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party 2,80,212
14 Bulandshahr (SC) 58.18 Bhola Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 4,21,973
15 Aligarh 59.38 Satish Kumar Gautam Bharatiya Janata Party 2,86,736
16 Hathras (SC) 59.66 Rajesh Kumar Diwaker Bharatiya Janata Party 3,26,386
17 Mathura 64.10 Hema Malini Bharatiya Janata Party 3,30,743
18 Agra (SC) 58.98 Ram Shankar Katheria Bharatiya Janata Party 3,00,263
19 Fatehpur Sikri 61.26 Choudhary Babulal Bharatiya Janata Party 1,73,106
20 Firozabad 67.49 Akshay Yadav Samajwadi Party 1,14,059
21 Mainpuri 60.46 Tej Pratap Singh Yadav Samajwadi Party 3,64,666
22 Etah 58.72 Rajveer Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 2,01,001
23 Badaun 58.09 Dharmendra Yadav Samajwadi Party 1,66,347
24 Aonla 60.22 Dharmendra Kashyap Bharatiya Janata Party 1,38,429
25 Bareilly 61.18 Santosh Kumar Gangwar Bharatiya Janata Party 2,40,685
26 Pilibhit 62.86 Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Bharatiya Janata Party 3,07,052
27 Shahjahanpur (SC) 57.12 Krishna Raj Bharatiya Janata Party 2,35,529
28 Kheri 64.18 Ajay Kumar Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party 1,10,274
29 Dhaurahra 68.05 Rekha Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 1,25,675
30 Sitapur 66.25 Rajesh Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 51,027
31 Hardoi (SC) 56.75 Anshul Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 81,343
32 Misrikh (SC) 57.85 Anju Bala Bharatiya Janata Party 87,363
33 Unnao 55.53 Sakshi Maharaj Bharatiya Janata Party 3,10,173
34 Mohanlalganj (SC) 60.75 Kaushal Kishore Bharatiya Janata Party 1,45,416
35 Lucknow 53.06 Rajnath Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 2,72,749
36 Rae Bareli 51.73 Sonia Gandhi Indian National Congress 3,52,713
37 Amethi 52.39 Rahul Gandhi Indian National Congress 1,07,903
38 Sultanpur 56.66 Feroze Varun Gandhi Bharatiya Janata Party 1,78,902
39 Pratapgarh 52.12 Kumar Harivansh Singh Apna Dal 1,68,222
40 Farrukhabad 60.15 Mukesh Rajput Bharatiya Janata Party 1,50,502
41 Etawah (SC) 55.05 Ashok Kumar Dohre Bharatiya Janata Party 1,72,946
42 Kannauj 61.62 Dimple Yadav Samajwadi Party 19,907
43 Kanpur 51.83 Murli Manohar Joshi Bharatiya Janata Party 2,22,946
44 Akbarpur 54.93 Devendra Singh Bhole Bharatiya Janata Party 2,78,997
45 Jalaun (SC) 58.78 Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 2,87,202
46 Jhansi 68.37 Uma Bharti Bharatiya Janata Party 1,90,467
47 Hamirpur 56.27 Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel Bharatiya Janata Party 2,66,788
48 Banda 53.61 Bhairon Prasad Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party 1,15,788
49 Fatehpur 58.58 Niranjan Jyoti Bharatiya Janata Party 1,87,206
50 Kaushambi (SC) 52.37 Vinod Kumar Sonkar Bharatiya Janata Party 42,900
51 Phulpur 50.20 Keshav Prasad Maurya Bharatiya Janata Party 3,08,308
52 Allahabad 53.50 Shyama Charan Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 62,009
53 Barabanki (SC) 62.06 Priyanka Singh Rawat Bharatiya Janata Party 2,11,878
54 Faizabad 58.82 Lallu Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 2,82,775
55 Ambedkar Nagar 60.18 Hari Om Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party 1,39,429
56 Bahraich (SC) 57.02 Savitri Bai Phule Bharatiya Janata Party 95,645
57 Kaiserganj 55.11 Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 78,218
58 Shrawasti 54.82 Daddan Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party 85,913
59 Gonda 51.08 Kirti Vardhan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 1,60,416
60 Domariyaganj 53.08 Jagdambika Pal Bharatiya Janata Party 1,03,588
61 Basti 58.66 Harish Dwivedi Bharatiya Janata Party 33,562
62 Sant Kabir Nagar 53.15 Sharad Tripathi Bharatiya Janata Party 97,978
63 Maharajganj 60.82 Pankaj Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party 2,40,458
64 Gorakhpur 54.67 Yogi Adityanath Bharatiya Janata Party 3,12,783
65 Kushi Nagar 56.56 Rajesh Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party 85,540
66 Deoria 53.80 Kalraj Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party 2,65,386
67 Bansgaon (SC) 49.88 Kamlesh Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 1,89,516
68 Lalganj (SC) 54.14 Neelam Sonkar Bharatiya Janata Party 63,086
69 Azamgarh 56.40 Mulayam Singh Yadav Samajwadi Party 63,204
70 Ghosi 54.99 Harinarayan Rajbhar Bharatiya Janata Party 1,46,015
71 Salempur 51.50 Ravindra Kushawaha Bharatiya Janata Party 2,32,342
72 Ballia 53.29 Bharat Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 1,39,434
73 Jaunpur 54.48 Krishna Pratap Bharatiya Janata Party 1,46,310
74 Machhlishahr (SC) 52.74 Ram Charitra Nishad Bharatiya Janata Party 1,72,155
75 Ghazipur 54.77 Manoj Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party 32,452
76 Chandauli 61.56 Mahendra Nath Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party 1,56,756
77 Varanasi 58.35 Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party 3,71,784
78 Bhadohi 53.54 Virendra Singh Mast Bharatiya Janata Party 1,58,039
79 Mirzapur 58.56 Anupriya Singh Patel Apna Dal 2,19,079
80 Robertsganj (SC) 54.05 Chhotelal Bharatiya Janata Party 1,90,486

Region-wise Results
Region Total seats Bharatiya Janata Party Samajwadi Party Indian National Congress Bahujan Samaj Party Others
Bundelkhand 4 4 4 0 2 0 1 0 1 0
Central Uttar Pradesh 24 20 19 1 6 2 10 0 4 1
North-East Uttar Pradesh 17 16 13 1 1 0 6 0 6 0
Rohilkhand 10 9 7 1 3 0 2 0 1 0
South-East Uttar Pradesh 8 7 6 0 5 0 0 2 1
West Uttar Pradesh 17 15 12 2 1 0 0 6 0
Total 80 71 61 5 18 2 19 0 20 2

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