Agra Lok Sabha constituency: Candidates for 2019 LS poll, past results, all updates

The land of the Taj Mahal, Agra Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The parliamentary seat is currently held by Ram Shankar Katheria, the former Union Minister often in news for his controversial statements, who won on a BJP ticket in 2009 and 2014. In the last Lok Sabha elections, he defeated Narayan Singh Suman of the BSP by over 3 lakh votes. Maharaj Singh Dhangar of the SP secured 1.34 votes and the third position.

Before the seat was reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes in the 2009 elections, actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar won from here twice - 1999 and 2004 - as Samajwadi Party candidate. 

In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has fielded SP Singh Baghel while sitting MP Katheria has been shifted to Etawah. Baghel will face Manoj Kumar Soni of the BSP and Preeta Harit of the Congress. 

The Agra Lok Sabha constituency is part of Agra district in Uttar Pradesh, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. It comprises five Assembly constituencies - Etmadpur, Agra Cantt, Agra South, Agra North and Jalesar.

UP is facing a three-pronged 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 (Raebareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi). 

The polling in Agra will be held in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 18. The results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be declared on May 23.