Domariyaganj Lok Sabha Constituency: Candidates for 2019 LS poll, past results, all updates

Domariyaganj Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 seats in Lok Sabha, goes to polls in the sixth phase of general elections on May 12. The constituency, part of Siddharth Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh, is currently held by BJP's Jagdambika Pal.

Pal has won the seat twice - once on a Congress ticket in 2009 and on a BJP ticket in 2014. Pal, most famously known for being the -three-day Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, began his political career with the Congress. He, however, later joined the Congress (Tiwari) when several leaders of the Congress split from the party and formed their own outfit. He later formed Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress and became a minister in Kalyan Singh's government. He served as the state Chief Minister for three days after Kalyan Singh's government was dismissed by Governor Romesh Bhandari.

However, after spending a few years outside the Congress, he re-joined the party and was made state unit chief. He won the Lok Sabha election from Domariyaganj in 2009. However, before the 2014 national election, he left the party to join the BJP and was re-elected from Domariyaganj as the BJP candidate. He defeated BSP's Muhammad Muqeem with a margin of little more than one lakh votes. 

Muqueem is also a former MP from Domariyaganj and had won as BSP candidate in 2004, defeating Jagdambika Pal. Before him, BJP's Ram Pal Singh won twice from Domariyaganj - 1998 and 1999. 

This election, the BJP has again fielded Jagdambika Pal who is facing BSP's Aftab Aalam and Congress' Chandresh Upadhyay.

Domariyaganj Lok Sabha constituency consists of five Vidhan Sabha segments of Siddharth Nagar district: Shohratgarh, Kapilvastu (SC),  Bansi, Itwa, Domariaganj.

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.