The seat is reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes and is currently held by BJP's Kamlesh Paswan.
Bansgaon parliamentary constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and covers parts of Gorakhpur and Deoria districts. The seat is reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes and is currently represented by BJP's Kamlesh Paswan.
Paswan won the Lok Sabha seat in 2009 when he defeated Shree Nath Ji of the BSP by 53,000 votes. In 2014, he defeated BSP's Sadal Prasad by 1.89 lakh votes to register his second consecutive win.
The BJP has re-nominated Paswan to contest the 2019 election. He is pitted against Sadal Prasad, the BSP candidate he had defeated in 2014, and Kush Saurabh of the Congress.
A reserved constituency, Bansgaon has been a BJP stronghold since 1991 when Raj Narain Passi first won the seat for the party. In seven elections - 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014 - the BJP has lost only twice. In 1996, Subhawati Paswan of Samajwadi Party defeated BJP's Raj Narain and in 2004 when Congress' Mahaveer Prasad won the seat.
Out of the seven wins for the BJP, Raj Narain won thrice - 1991, 1998 and 1999 - while sitting MP Kamlesh Paswan won it twice - 2009 and 2014.
Bansgaon Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments: Chauri-Chaura, Bansgaon and Chillupar (Gorakhpur district); Rudrapur and Barhaj (Deoria).
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).
In the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha polling, 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh - Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushi Nagar, Deoria, Bansgaon, Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Robertsganj - are going for polls. In 2014 election, all of these 13 seats were won by the BJP with Prime Minister Narendra Modi securing his victory from Varanasi.
The counting of votes of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be conducted on May 23.
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