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

The Amroha Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, is currently held by the BJP’s Kanwar Singh Tanwar who won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating SP's Humera Akhtar by more than 1.58 lakh votes.  

The BJP has again fielded Tanwar who will face BSP's Kunwar Danish Ali and Congress' Sachin Choudhary. Ali, who was until very recently a part of the Karnataka-based JD(S), joined the BSP to contest elections as an SP-BSP-RLD Mahagathbandhan's candidate. 

Before Tanwar, Devendra Nagpal of the RLD held the seat from 2009-2014. Contesting as NDA candidate in alliance with the BJP, he had defeated Mehboob Ali of the SP  to win the seat. 

The constituency has a huge number of Muslim and Dalit population and the Mahagathbandhan is hoping to consolidate the anti-BJP votes. 

The Amroha Lok Sabha constituency is part of Amroha district in Western Uttar Pradesh and is made of five Assembly constituencies - Amroha, Dhanaura, Garhmukteshwar, Hasanpur and Naugawan Sadat.

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 Amroha 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.