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Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 UP: Keshari Devi Patel wins back Phulpur for BJP, defeats SP's Pandhari Yadav

SP's Pandhari Yadav. He is facing BJP's Keshri Devi Patel and Pankaj Niranjan of the Congress.

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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav with party candidate for Phulpur parliamentary constituency Pandhari Yadav and other leaders at an election campaign rally for the Lok Sabha polls, May 5, 2019. (PTI Photo)
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In 2014, Keshav Prasad Maurya, now UP's deputy CM, became the first BJP candidate to win from Phulpur. The BJP, however, lost in the bypoll in 2018 with SP and BSP fielded a joint candidate - Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel - against BJP's Kaushalendra Singh Patel.

However this time, the SP has dropped Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel and has instead fielded Pandhari Yadav. He is facing BJP's Keshri Devi Patel and Pankaj Niranjan of the Congress. There are a total of 14 candidates in the fray from Phulpur. 

The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.

Election Results 2019: Keshari Devi Patel wins back Phulpur for BJP. She defeated SP's Pandhari Yadav by 171968 votes. 

Keshari Devi Patel (BJP) - 544701 (55.68%), Pandhari Yadav (SP) - 372733 (38.1%), Pankaj Patel (Congress) - 32761 (3.35%)

Constituency profile

One of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Phulpur is a prestigious seat which sent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to parliament. After his demise in 1962, his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was elected from here twice.  Later, socialist leader Janeshwar Mishra former Prime Minister VP Singh was also elected from here. 

In Phulpur, represented by Nehru in Lok Sabha thrice, the Congress is now a spent force. The Congress last won from here in 1984 and in 2014 its celebrity candidate cricketer Mohammad Kaif was not even able to secure his deposit. He could only get a little more than 58,000 votes. 

The SP won the seat for four consecutive terms and held it between 1996 to 2004 until it lost to BSP in 2009. 

In 2014, Keshav Prasad Maurya, now UP's deputy CM, became the first BJP candidate to win from Phulpur. The BJP, however, lost in the bypoll in 2018 with SP and BSP fielded a joint candidate - Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel - against BJP's Kaushalendra Singh Patel.

Fourteen candidates are testing their fortunes in the election here due on May 12.

Phulpur Lok Sabha seat, which Nehru had won in 1952, 1957 and 1962 consists of five assembly segments -- Phaphamau, Soraon (SC), Phulpur, Allahabad West and Allahabad North.

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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