Congress candidate Savitri Bai Phule had won 2014 election on a BJP ticket.
After sitting BJP MP Savitri Bai Phule, a vocal critic of the party leadership, quit to join the Congress, the BJP fielded Akshaibar Lal. Lal was up against Phule, a Congress candidate, and Samajwadi Party's Shabbir Ahmad Valmiki. Shivpal Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) fielded Jagdish Kumar Singh to contest from Bahraich.
The constituency went to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 6.
Election Results 2019
20:06 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: AKSHAIBAR LAL (BJP), 525982 (53.14%), SHABBIR BALMIKI (SP) - 397230 (40.13%), SAVITRI BAI PHULE (Congress) - 34454 (3.48%)
13:43 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: AKSHAIBAR LAL (BJP) - 487349 (52.71%), SHABBIR BALMIKI (SP) - 373912 (40.44%)
Constituency profile
The seat was unreserved before 2009 elections and was made a reserved seat only in 2008 delimitation. The composition of Lok Sabha constituency was also changed during the exercise with three new Assembly segments being added while three were removed.
The parliamentary constituency comprises of Balha, Nanpara, Matera, Mahasi and Bahraich assembly segments.
In 2009 election, the first as a reserved seat, Kamal Kishor of the Congress was successful. Before him, Rubab Sayda of Samajwadi Party represented Bahraich in Lok Sabha.
In 2014, Phule had defeated Samajwadi Party's Shabbir Ahmad Valmiki by 96,000 votes.
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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