India
This reserved constituency went to polls in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 19.
Updated : May 24, 2019, 09:52 AM IST
Sitting BJP MP Kamlesh Paswan is pitted against BSP's Sadal Prasad and Kush Saurabh of the Congress in Bansgaon Lok Sabha constituency.
This reserved constituency went to polls in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 19.
Election Result 2019: Kamlesh Paswan (BJP) - 546673 (56.41%), Sadal Prasad (BSP) - 393205 (40.57%)
Constituency profile
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.
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).
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).