While the district was carved out of Gonda and Bahraich districts, parts of Shrawasti and Balrampur districts form the parliamentary constituency.
Shrawasti Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, came into existence in 2008 after delimitation exercise.
Shrawasti, closely associated with the life of both Gautama Buddha and Bhagwan Mahavir, was carved out of Gonda and Bahraich districts in 1997. The district is a religious town revered by followers of Jain and Baudh religions.
Four of the five assembly segments which form the Shrawasti parliamentary constituency were in Bahraich Lok Sabha constituency before the 2008 delimitation. Three of the assembly constituencies are part of Balrampur district while two are in Shravasti.
In the first election held in 2008, Congress' Vinay Kumar Pandey emerged victorious. He, however, lost to BJP's Daddan Mishra, a former BSP leader who joined the BJP in 2012. While the BJP has again fielded Daddan Mishra, Ram Shiromani Mishra is BSP's candidate from Shrawasti.
The Congress has fielded Dhirendra Pratap Singh from here.
The parliamentary constituency of Shrawasti consists of five assembly segments: Bhinga, Shrawasti, Tulsipur, Gainsari and Balrampur (SC).
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).
In sixth phase of Lok Sabha polling, 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh - Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Phulpur, Allahabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Shrawasti, Domariyaganj, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Lalganj, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr and Bhadohi - are going for polls.
Of these seats, 13 were won by the BJP in 2014 elections with only Azamgarh going to the Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The counting of votes of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be conducted on May 23.
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