The constituency went to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections on April 29.
Sitting BJP MP Anju Bala was denied ticket by the party which fielded Ashok Kumar Rawat against face Neelu Satyarthi of the BSP and Manjari Rahi of the Congress. Shivpal Yadav's new political outfit, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), has fielded Arun Kumari Kori from here.
The constituency went to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections on April 29.
Election Results 2019: BJP's Ashok Rawat defeats BSP's Neelu Satyarthi by 1,00,672 votes.
Ashok Kumar Rawat (BSP) - 534429 (52.05%), Dr Neelu Satyarthi (BSP) - 433757 (42.25%), Manjari Rahi (Congress) - 26505 (2.58%)
Constituency profile
Misrikh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. Misrikh is a reserved seat where only candidates from scheduled caste (SC) can contest elections. The Lok Sabha constituency, named after an assembly constituency in Sitapur district also covers Hardoi and Kanpur Nagar districts.
Rawat won two consecutive elections from here on BSP ticket in 2004 and 2009 but lost to BJP's Anju Bala in 2014 by a margin of 87,000 votes.
Misrikh Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Assembly segments - Misrikh (Sitapur district), Mallanwan, Balamau and Sandila (Hardoi district) and Bilhaur in Kanpur Nagar district.
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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