UP BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey is pitted against SP's Sanjay Chauhan in Chandauli.
Chandauli Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. Currently represented by Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey, Chandauli will go to polls in the seventh and last phase of general elections on May 19.
Chandauli Lok Sabha seat in eastern UP is one of the 80 parliamentary constituencies. In 2014, Pandey defeated BSP's Anil Kumar Maurya by 1.56 lakh votes. Ramkishun, the sitting MP from Samajwadi Party, was pushed to the third position.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had first won the seat in 1991 when Ananda Ratna Maurya defeated Janata Dal's Kailash Nath Singh Yadav. Maurya went on to win two more elections in 1996 and 1998, but lost to Jawahar Lal Jaiswal of Samajwadi Party (SP) in 1999.
Maurya later joined the SP and contested in 2004 election but lost to Kailash Nath Singh Yadav, who contested on the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket. In 2009 election, Yadav lost to SP's Ramkishun by just 459 votes.
In 2019 Lok Sabha election, Mahendra Nath Pandey is pitted against SP's Sanjay Chauhan in Chandauli. The Congress has not fielded a candidate but instead has given the seat to contest to an ally Jan Adhikar Party which has nominated Shivkanya Kushwaha from Chandauli.
The parliamentary constituency comprises of five assembly segments: Mughalsarai, Sakaldiha, Saiyadraja, Ajagara and Shivpur.
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).
In the seventh phase of Lok Sabha polling, 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh - Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushi Nagar, Deoria, Bansgaon, Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Robertsganj - are going for polls.
In 2014 election, all of these 13 seats were won by the BJP with Prime Minister Narendra Modi securing his victory from Varanasi.
The counting of votes of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be conducted on May 23.
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