BJP fielded sitting MP Rajendra Agarwal who faced BSP's Haji Mohammed Yaqoob and Congress' Harendra Agarwal. Haji Yaqoob was the SP-BSP-RLD Mahagathbandhan's candidate from Meerut.
The constituency went to polls in the first phase of Lok Sabha election on April 11.
Election Result 2019: Sitting BJP MP Rajendra Agarwal survives scare to win against BSP's Haji Mohammed Yaqoob by 4729 votes.
RAJENDRA AGARWAL (BJP) - 586184 (48.19%), HAJI MOHAMMAD YAQOOB (BSP) - 581455 (47.8%), HARENDRA AGARWAL (Congress) - 34479 (2.83%)
Constituency profile
Agarwal had won the seat for the second time in 2014 by defeating BSP's Mohammad Shahid Akhlak with a margin of over 2.3 lakh votes.
Rajendra Agarwal had won the seat for the time in 2009 when defeated Malook Nagar of the BSP. Before that, the constituency was held by Mohammad Shahid Akhlak for a term. The Congress last won from here in 1999 when Avtar Singh Bhadana had defeated Amar Pal Singh who had won two consecutive terms.
The Parliamentary constituency comprises five legislative assembly segments - Kithore, Meerut Cantonment, Meerut, Meerut South and Hapur.
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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