Mirzapur Lok Sabha seat was once held by bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi.
Currently held by Union Minister Anupriya Patel, the seat was once held by bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi. Patel is seeking re-election against SP's Ram Charitra Nishad and Congress' Lalitesh Pati Tripathi.
The constituency went to polls in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 19.
Election Result 2019: Union Minister Anupriya Patel retains Mirzapur seat, defeats SP's Ramcharitra Nishad by 2,32,008 votes.
Anupriya Singh Patel - Apna Dal (Soneylal) - 591564 (53.34%), Ramcharitra Nishad (SP) - - 359556 (32.42%), Lalitesh Pati Tripathi (Congress) - 91501 - (8.25%)
Constituency profile
Anupriya Patel won from Mirzapur Lok Sabha seat in 2014 as a candidate of Apna Dal, in alliance with the BJP, by 2.19 lakh votes against BSP's Samudra Bind. While Patel secured 4.36 lakh votes, Bind received 2.17 lakh votes. Congress' Lalitesh Pati Tripathi had secured third position with 1.52 lakh votes. Samajwadi Party candidate Surendra Singh Patel was at the fourth position with 1.08 lakh votes.
Following disagreements with her father, Patel split the party and formed her own outfit Apna Dal (S). She was made Union Minister of State (MoS) for Health and Family Welfare in cabinet reshuffle of July 2016.
From 2009 to 2014, the seat was represented by SP's Bal Kumar Patel. Brother of Shiv Kumar Patel alias Dadua, a notorious bandit who operated in Chambal region on Madhya Pradesh-Uttar Pradesh border, Bal Kumar Patel has switched sides this election and has been given ticket by the Congress to contest from Banda Lok Sabha seat.
Phoolan Devi, a notorious dacoit in Chambal who later joined mainstream politics after her surrender, made her political debut from here in 1996 by defeating BJP's Virendra Singh. However, she lost to Singh in 1998 election but again emerged victorious in 199. She held the seat till her death in 2001 when she was assassinated by Sher Singh Rana.
Mirzapur parliamentary constituency comprises five assembly segments: Chhanbey (SC), Mirzapur, Majhawan, Chunar and Marihan.
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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