Samajwadi Party loses prestige battle.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav is contesting from Kannauj against BJP's Subrat Pathak. The constituency went to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections on April 29.
Election Results 2019: Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav loses to Subrat Pathak 12353 votes.
SUBRAT PATHAK (BJP) - 563087 (49.37%), DIMPLE YADAV (SP) - 550734 (48.29%)
Constituency profile
One of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Kannauj is a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party and was one of seven seats in the state which the BJP and its allies failed to win in 2014 Lok Sabha polls. The seat has been with the SP since 1998 when Pradeep Kumar Yadav won it for the party for the first time.
Kannauj had sent Socialist thinker Ram Manohar Lohia (in 1967) and SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav (in 1999) to Parliament.
Akhilesh Yadav, the chief of the party, made his political debut from here when he contested the 2000 by-poll, necessitated by Mulayam's resignation, and won by 58,000 votes and only bettered his victory margin in the next election.
His wife Dimple Yadav, who lost her first political battle in Firozabad in 2009 against Congress' Raj Babbar, scored her first win from Kannauj Lok Sabha seat when she won the 2012 by-election. She was elected unopposed in the by-poll held after her husband's resignation as Lok Sabha member when he became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and also became the member legislative council.
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: State Profile
In the last parliamentary elections in 2014, the BJP had won 71 seats in the state, securing 42.63 per cent of the votes. BJP ally Apna Dal bagged two more. The Samajwadi Party had won five seats with a vote share of 22.35 per cent. The BSP did not win any seat but secured 19.77 per cent votes. The Congress registered wins on two UP seats in 2014, bagging 7.53 per cent of the votes.
UP is facing a triangular battle between the BJP, the Congress and BSP-SP-RLD alliance. Under the alliance's seat-sharing formula, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting on 38 Lok Sabha seats of the total 80 seats, Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party on 37 seats and the Chaudhary Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on three seats. The alliance has left two for Congress' Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi).
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