The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.
One of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Pratapgarh in eastern UP haD been won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) only once in 1998 when Ram Vilas Vedanti secured a victory from here. While the seat went to NDA ally Apna Dal in 2014, BJP WAs contesting the seat this time and fielded Apna Dal (S) MLA Sangam Lal Gupta. The BSP fielded Ashok Kumar Tripathi as 'Mahagathbandhan' candidate.
The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.
Election Results 2019: BJP's Sangam Lal Gupta defeats BSP's Ashok Tripathi by 1,17,752 votes. Former Congress MP Rajkumari Ratna Singh failed to secure her deposit.
SANGAM LAL GUPTA (BJP) - 436291 (47.7%), ASHOK TRIPATHI (BSP) - 318539 (34.83%), RAJKUMARI RATNA SINGH (Congress) - 77096 (8.43%), AKSHAY PRATAP SINGH ALIAS GOPAL JI (Jansatta Dal Loktantrik) - 46963 (5.13%)
Constituency profile
In 2014, the seat went to BJP ally Apna Dal and Kuwar Harivansh Singh won with a margin of 1.68 lakh votes. The party, however, later split and Singh remained loyal to Krishna Patel, wife of Apna Dal founder Sone Lal Patel. Anupriya Patel, one of the two party MPs, formed her own party Apna Dal (S) and was made a Union Minister by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Rajkumari Ratna Singh, a three-time Congress MP from 1996-1998, 1999-2004 and 2009-14, has again been fielded by the party. She is the erstwhile princess of Kalakankar state in Pratapgarh. This time, Singh has also got the support of Prashuram Sena, an organisation with a considerable following in the area.
Akshay Pratap Singh, a former Samajwadi Party MP from the seat (2009-2004), is also contesting on a ticket of Jansatta Dal, a party founded by local strongman Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya.
Rajkumari and Raja-backed candidate are said to be in a direct fight in the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha Constituency.
The Pratapgarh Lok Sabha seat consists of five assembly constituencies namely Raniganj, Rampur Khas, Vishwanathganj, Patti and Pratapgarh.
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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