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Jalaun Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 UP: BJP's Bhanu Pratap Verma defeats BSP's Pankaj Singh to win fifth term

BJP's Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, who had won from here four times, was looking to retain his seat.

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The constituency is considered a stronghold of the BJP. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma won from here four times and was the sitting MP from here. He was again been fielded by the BJP and faced BSP's Pankaj Singh and Congress' Brij Lal Khabri.

The constituency went to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections on April 29.

Election Results 2019: BJP's Bhanu Pratap Verma defeats BSP's Pankaj Singh by 158377 votes. BHANU PRATAP SINGH VERMA (BJP) - 581763 (51.49%), AJAY SINGH (PANKAJ) (BSP) - 423386 (37.47%), BRIJLAL KHABRI (Congress) 89606 (7.93%). 

Constituency profile

One of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Jalaun covers districts of Jalaun, Jhansi and Kanpur Dehat. The parliamentary constituency is reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes. 

In 2014, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma had defeated BSP's Brijlal Khabri by 2.87 lakh votes. SP's Ghanshyam Anuragi, the sitting MP from the constituency, was on the third position with 1.8 lakh votes. Khabri left the BSP and joined Congress in October 2016, a few months before the Assembly elections in the state. He is now Congress candidate in Jalaun Lok Sabha constituency. 

Jalaun Lok Sabha constituency comprises one assembly segment of Kanpur Dehat, three assembly constituencies of Jalaun district and one of Jhansi district: Bhognipur (Kanpur Dehat), Madhogarh, Kalpi, Orai (Jalaun) and Garautha (Jhansi).

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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