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%
  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%

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 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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