Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency went to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections on April 29.
Sitting BJP MP Devendra Singh alias Bhole was re-nominated by his party to contest in 2019 election against Congress' Raja Ram Pal and BSP's Nisha Sachan. Mahendra Singh Yadav of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) was also in the fray.
The constituency went to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections on April 29.
Election Results 2019
9:12 IST Friday, 24 May 2019: Devendra Singh 'Bhole' (BJP) - 581282 (56.69%), Nisha Sachan (BSP) - 306140 (29.86%), Rajaram Pal (Congress) - 108341 (10.57%)
13:11 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: Devendra Singh 'Bhole' (BJP) - 146540 (56.85%), Nisha Sachan (BSP)- 76369 (29.63%)
Constituency profile
One of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Akbarpur covers districts of Kanpur Nagar and Kanpur Dehat. This constituency came into existence in 2008 as a part of the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies.
In the first election held in the constituency in 2009, Pal had won the seat by a margin of 32,000 votes.
In 2104, Bhole had defeated Anil Shukla Warsi of the BSP with a margin of nearly 2.8 lakh votes. Raja Ram Pal of the Congress who was then the sitting MP was able to secure only 96,000 of total 9.71 lakh votes that were polled. Raja Ram Pal of the Congress who was then the sitting MP was able to secure only 96,000 of total 9.71 lakh votes that were polled.
Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency comprises one assembly segment of Kanpur Dehat and four assembly constituencies of Kanpur Nagar district: Akbarpur-Raniya (Kanpur Dehat), Bithoor, Kalyanpur, Maharajpur and Ghatampur of 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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