The Congress had won the seat in 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
One of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Akbarpur covers districts of Kanpur Nagar and Kanpur Dehat. This constituency came into existence in 2008 as a part of the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies.
The sitting MP of Akbarpur Lok Sabha is BJP's Devendra Singh alias Bhole who has been re-nominated by his party to contest in 2019 election. He had defeated Anil Shukla Warsi of the BSP with a margin of nearly 2.8 lakh votes. Raja Ram Pal of the Congress who was then the sitting MP was able to secure only 96,000 of total 9.71 lakh votes that were polled.
In the first election held in the constituency in 2009, Pal had won the seat with a margin of 32,000 votes.
This time, while the Congress has again placed its bets on Raja Ram Pal, the BSP has nominated Nisha Sachan from Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency. Mahendra Singh Yadav of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) is also in the fray.
Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency comprises one assembly segment of Kanpur Dehat and four assembly constituencies of Kanpur Nagar district: Akbarpur-Raniya (Kanpur Dehat), Bithoor, Kalyanpur, Maharajpur and Ghatampur of Kanpur Nagar district.
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 for 13 Lok Sabha seats in UP, including Akbarpur, will be held in the fourth-phase on April 29. In 2014, the BJP won 12 of these 13 seats in the state. Only Kannauj had defied the Modi wave that year among them.
Altogether, 2,38,88,367 people are eligible to cast their vote at 27,513 booths in the 13 constituencies. A total of 152 candidates are in the fray with a maximum of 15 in Shahjahanpur. Jalaun has the minimum number of nominees at five.
The counting of votes of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be conducted on May 23.
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