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Etawah Lok Sabha Election Result 2019 UP: BJP's Ram Shankar Katheria defeats SP's Kamlesh Kumar

Denying ticket to sitting MP Ashok Kumar Dohre, the BJP fielded former Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria.

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Etawah Lok Sabha Election Result 2019 UP: BJP's Ram Shankar Katheria defeats SP's Kamlesh Kumar
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    Denying ticket to sitting MP Ashok Kumar Dohre, the BJP fielded former Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria. Denied ticket, Dohre joined the Congress and was fielded by the party against Ram Shankar Katheria and SP's Kamlesh Katheria.

    The constituency went to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections on April 29.

    Etawah Lok Sabha Election Result 2019: Former Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria defeats Kamlesh Kumar by 64,437 votes. Dr RAM SHANKAR KATHERIA (BJP) - 522119 (50.8%), KAMLESH KUMAR (SP) - 457682 (44.53%), ASHOK KUMAR DOHARE (Congress) - 16570 (1.61%)

    16:52 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: RAM SHANKAR KATHERIA (BJP) - 394694 (50.31%), KAMLESH KUMAR (SP) - 352630 (44.95%), ASHOK KUMAR DOHARE (Congress)- 13247 (1.69%)

    Constituency profile

    Etawah Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The seat is reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled caste (SC).  Dohre had defeated Samajwadi Party's Premdas Katheria in 2014 Lok Sabha elections by a margin of over 1.7 lakh votes.

    The parliamentary constituency covers parts of three districts - Etawah, Auraiya and Kanpur Dehat. It comprises five Assembly segments: Etawah, Bharthana, Dibiyapur, Auraiya and Sikandra. 

    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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