Lucknow holds a special place in the state, not just for being the political capital of India's largest state but also because of its composite culture.
Poonam Sinha is the SP-BSP-RLD alliance candidate from Lucknow, who is contesting against Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Acharya Pramod of the Congress. Poonam Sinha is a former actress and Congress' Patna Sahib candidate Shatrughan Sinha's wife. Mr Sinha actively campaigned for his wife, even against his party's candidate Acharya Pramod in the city of Nawabs.
Shatrughan Sinha had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party recently and is the Congress candidate from the Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar.
The constituency went to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha election on May 6.
Election Results 2019: BJP's Rajnath Singh increases victory margin, defeats SP's Poonam Sinha by 347302 votes. Rajnath Singh (BJP) - 633026 (56.7%), Poonam Shatrughan Sinha (SP) - 285724 (25.59%), Acharya Pramod Krishnam (Congress) - 180011 (16.12%)
14:57 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: Rajnath Singh (BJP) - 482548 (57.32%), Poonam Shatrughan Sinha (SP) - 216688 (25.74%)
12:04 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: Rajnath Singh - 219320 (59.06%), Poonam Shatrughan Sinha - 113213 (26.73%), Acharya Pramod Krishnam -62143 (14.67%)
9:46 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: BJP's Rajnath Singh leads against Congress' Acharya Pramod and SP's Poonam Sinha (Rajnath Singh- 30812, Acharya Pramod- 4212, Poonam Shatrughan Sinha- 12559)
Constituency profile
Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, has been held by the BJP since 1991, is represented by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh who won the seat for the first time in 2014 Lok Sabha election by 2.7 lakh votes.
Known for sending stalwarts like Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, Sheila Kaul and Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Lok Sabha, Lucknow holds a special place in the state, not just for being the political capital of India's largest state but also because of its composite culture. This was witnessed recently, Rajnath Singh went to meet Muslim religious leaders - from both Shia and Sunni sects - even as UP CM Yogi Adityanath was banned by the Election Commission for his "Ali vs Bajrang Bali" remarks.
The constituency which has a huge Muslim population - nearly 25% - is one of the strongholds of the BJP in the state. The BJP which does not appeal to Muslim voters in UP, in general, gets a huge chunk of their votes in this seat. Atal Bihari Vajpayee won five consecutive elections from here almost every time goT more than 50% of the total votes polled.
Since its first win in 1991, the vote share of the has only dropped below 40% in 2009 when Lal Ji Tandon, Vajpayee's protege and known as his representative in Lucknow, polled little more than 34% votes. However, in 2014, Rajnath Singh increased the vote percentage to 54 and looks to better it this time.
The Parliamentary constituency comprises five assembly segments of the city: Lucknow West, Lucknow North, Lucknow East, Lucknow Central and Lucknow Cantt.
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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