2014 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

Summary

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)

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80 seats
Turnout58.44% (Increase10.65%)
  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 Increase61 Decrease18 Decrease19
Popular vote 34,318,854 17,988,967 6,061,267
Percentage 42.63% 22.35% 7.53%
Swing Increase24.80% Decrease1.06% Decrease10.75%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Anupriya Patel Mayawati Ajit Singh
Party AD BSP RLD
Leader's seat Mirzapur Not Contested Baghpat
(lost)
Last election 0 20 5
Seats won 2 0 0
Seat change Increase2 Decrease20 Decrease5
Popular vote 812,325 15,914,194 689,409
Percentage 1.01% 19.77% 0.86%
Swing N/A Decrease7.82% N/A

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 edit

Conducted in Month(s) Ref Polling Organisation/Agency Sample size
UPA NDA SP 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 edit

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 edit

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]

71 2 5 2
BJP Apna Dal SP INC
Alliance/Party Seats Popular vote 2nd Position 3rd Position
Contested Won +/− Votes % ±pp
NDA Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 78 71   61 3,43,18,854 42.63   24.80 7 0
Apna Dal 2 2   2 8,12,315 1.0 0 0
- - Samajwadi Party 78 5   18 1,79,88,967 22.20   1.06 31 30
- - Bahujan Samaj Party 80 0   20 1,59,14,194 19.60   7.82 34 42
UPA Indian National Congress 66 2   19 60,61,267 7.50   10.75 6 5
Rashtriya Lok Dal 8 0   5 6,89,409 0.86  2.4 1 1

Constituency Wise Results edit

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

# Constituency Winner Party Votes Runner Up Party Votes Margin
1 Saharanpur Raghav Lakhanpal BJP 4,72,999 INC 4,07,909 65,090
2 Kairana Hukum Singh BJP 5,65,909 SP 3,29,081 2,36,628
3 Muzaffarnagar Sanjeev Balyan BJP 6,53,391 BSP 2,52,241 4,01,150
4 Bijnor Bharatendra Singh BJP 4,86,913 SP 2,81,139 2,05,774
5 Nagina (SC) Yashwant Singh BJP 3,67,825 SP 2,75,435 92,390
6 Moradabad Kunwar Sarvesh Singh BJP 4,85,224 SP 3,97,720 87,504
7 Rampur Naipal Singh BJP 3,58,616 SP 3,35,181 23,435
8 Sambhal Satyapal Saini BJP 3,60,242 SP 3,55,068 5,174
9 Amroha Kanwar Singh Tanwar BJP 5,28,880 SP 3,70,666 1,58,214
10 Meerut Rajendra Agrawal BJP 5,32,981 BSP 3,00,655 2,32,326
11 Baghpat Satyapal Singh BJP 4,23,475 SP 2,13,654 2,09,866
12 Ghaziabad Vijay Kumar Singh BJP 7,58,482 INC 1,91,222 5,67,260
13 Gautam Buddh Nagar Mahesh Sharma BJP 5,99,702 SP 3,19,490 2,80,212
14 Bulandshahr (SC) Bhola Singh BJP 6,04,449 BSP 1,82,476 4,21,973
15 Aligarh Satish Kumar Gautam BJP 5,14,624 BSP 2,27,886 2,86,736
16 Hathras (SC) Rajesh Diwaker BJP 5,44,277 BSP 2,17,891 3,26,386
17 Mathura Hema Malini BJP 6,74,633 RLD 2,43,890 3,30,743
18 Agra (SC) Ram Shankar Katheria BJP 5,83,716 BSP 2,83,453 3,00,263
19 Fatehpur Sikri Babulal Chaudhary BJP 4,26,589 BSP 2,53,483 1,73,106
20 Firozabad Akshay Yadav SP 5,34,583 BJP 4,20,524 1,14,059
21 Mainpuri Tej Pratap Singh Yadav SP 5,95,918 BJP 2,31,252 3,64,666
22 Etah Rajveer Singh BJP 4,74,978 SP 2,73,977 2,01,001
23 Badaun Dharmendra Yadav SP 4,98,378 BJP 3,32,031 1,66,347
24 Aonla Dharmendra Kashyap BJP 4,09,907 SP 2,71,478 1,38,429
25 Bareilly Santosh Gangwar BJP 5,18,258 SP 2,39,882 2,40,685
26 Pilibhit Maneka Gandhi BJP 5,25,132 SP 2,89,603 3,07,052
27 Shahjahanpur (SC) Krishna Raj BJP 5,25,132 BSP 2,89,603 2,35,529
28 Kheri Ajay Mishra Teni BJP 3,98,578 BSP 2,88,304 1,10,274
29 Dhaurahra Rekha Verma BJP 3,60,357 BSP 2,34,682 1,25,675
30 Sitapur Rajesh Verma BJP 4,17,546 BSP 3,66,519 51,027
31 Hardoi (SC) Anshul Verma BJP 3,60,501 BSP 2,79,158 81,343
32 Misrikh (SC) Anju Bala BJP 4,12,575 BSP 3,25,212 87,363
33 Unnao Sakshi Maharaj BJP 5,18,834 SP 2,08,661 3,10,173
34 Mohanlalganj (SC) Kaushal Kishore BJP 4,55,274 BSP 3,09,858 1,45,416
35 Lucknow Rajnath Singh BJP 5,61,106 INC 2,88,357 2,72,749
36 Rae Bareli Sonia Gandhi INC 5,26,434 BJP 1,73,721 3,52,713
37 Amethi Rahul Gandhi INC 4,08,651 BJP 3,00,748 1,07,903
38 Sultanpur Feroze Varun Gandhi BJP 4,10,348 BSP 2,31,446 1,78,902
39 Pratapgarh Harivansh Singh AD 3,75,789 BSP 2,07,567 1,68,222
40 Farrukhabad Mukesh Rajput BJP 4,06,195 SP 2,55,693 1,50,502
41 Etawah (SC) Ashok Kumar Doharey BJP 4,31,646 SP 2,66,700 1,72,946
42 Kannauj Dimple Yadav SP 4,89,164 BJP 4,69,256 19,907
43 Kanpur Murli Manohar Joshi BJP 4,74,712 INC 2,51,766 2,22,946
44 Akbarpur Devendra Singh Bhole BJP 4,81,584 BSP 2,02,587 2,78,997
45 Jalaun (SC) Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma BJP 5,48,631 BSP 2,61,429 2,87,202
46 Jhansi Uma Bharti BJP 5,75,889 SP 3,85,422 1,90,467
47 Hamirpur Pushpendra Singh Chandel BJP 4,53,884 SP 1,87,096 2,66,788
48 Banda Bhairon Prasad Mishra BJP 3,42,066 BSP 2,26,278 1,15,788
49 Fatehpur Niranjan Jyoti BJP 4,85,994 BSP 2,98,788 1,87,206
50 Kaushambi (SC) Vinod Sonkar BJP 3,31,724 SP 2,88,824 42,900
51 Phulpur Keshav Prasad Maurya BJP 5,03,564 SP 1,95,256 3,08,308
52 Allahabad Shyama Charan Gupta BJP 3,13,772 SP 2,51,763 62,009
53 Barabanki (SC) Priyanka Singh Rawat BJP 4,54,214 INC 2,42,336 2,11,878
54 Faizabad Lallu Singh BJP 4,91,761 SP 2,08,986 2,82,775
55 Ambedkar Nagar Hari Om Pandey BJP 4,32,104 BSP 2,92,675 1,39,429
56 Bahraich (SC) Savitri Bai Phule BJP 4,32,392 SP 3,36,747 95,645
57 Kaiserganj Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh BJP 3,81,500 SP 3,03,282 78,218
58 Shravasti Daddan Mishra BJP 3,45,964 SP 2,60,051 85,913
59 Gonda Kirti Vardhan Singh BJP 3,70,051 SP 2,84,511 1,60,416
60 Domariyaganj Jagdambika Pal BJP 2,98,845 BSP 1,95,257 1,03,588
61 Basti Harish Dwivedi BJP 3,57,680 SP 3,24,118 33,562
62 Sant Kabir Nagar Sharad Tripathi BJP 3,48,892 BSP 2,50,914 97,978
63 Maharajganj Pankaj Choudhary BJP 4,71,542 BSP 2,31,084 2,40,458
64 Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath BJP 5,39,127 SP 2,26,344 3,12,783
65 Kushi Nagar Rajesh Pandey BJP 3,70,051 INC 2,84,511 85,540
66 Deoria Kalraj Mishra BJP 4,96,500 BSP 2,31,114 2,65,386
67 Bansgaon (SC) Kamlesh Paswan BJP 4,17,959 BSP 2,28,443 1,89,516
68 Lalganj (SC) Neelam Sonkar BJP 3,24,016 SP 2,60,930 63,086
69 Azamgarh Mulayam Singh Yadav SP 3,40,306 BJP 2,77,102 63,204
70 Ghosi Harinarayan Rajbhar BJP 3,79,797 BSP 2,33,782 1,46,015
71 Salempur Ravindra Kushawaha BJP 3,92,213 BSP 3,92,213 2,32,342
72 Ballia Bharat Singh BJP 3,59,760 SP 2,20,324 1,39,434
73 Jaunpur Krishna Pratap BJP 3,67,149 BSP 2,20,839 1,46,310
74 Machhlishahr (SC) Ram Charitra Nishad BJP 4,38,210 BSP 2,66,055 1,72,155
75 Ghazipur Manoj Sinha BJP 3,06,929 SP 2,74,477 32,452
76 Chandauli Mahendra Nath Pandey BJP 4,14,135 BSP 2,57,379 1,56,756
77 Varanasi Narendra Modi BJP 5,81,022 AAP 2,09,238 3,71,784
78 Bhadohi Virendra Singh Mast BJP 4,03,695 BSP 2,45,554 1,58,039
79 Mirzapur Anupriya Singh Patel AD 4,36,536 BSP 2,17,457 2,19,079
80 Robertsganj (SC) Chhotelal BJP 3,78,211 BSP 1,87,725 1,90,486

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties edit

Party Assembly segments Position in Assembly (as of 2017 election)
Bharatiya Janata Party 328 312
Bahujan Samaj Party 9 19
Samajwadi Party 42 47
Apna Dal (Sonelal) 9 9
Indian National Congress 15 7
Others 0 9
Total 403


Region-wise Results edit

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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