The constituency went to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 6.
This time, the SP and the BSP joined hands and fielded Vinod Kumar alias Pandit Singh, a former UP minister in Akhilesh Yadav's SP government. Pandit Singh is facing Congress' Krishna Patel and sitting MP Kirti Vardhan Singh.
The constituency went to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 6.
Election Results 2019
20:19 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH ALIAS RAJA BHAIYA (BJP) - 508190 (55.01%), VINOD KUMAR ALIAS PANDIT SINGH (SP) - 341830 (37%), KRISHNA PATEL (Congress) - 25686 (2.78%)
18:20 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH ALIAS RAJA BHAIYA (BJP) - 505640 (55%), VINOD KUMAR ALIAS PANDIT SINGH (SP) - 340158 (37%), KRISHNA PATEL (Congress) - 25590 (2.78)
Constituency profile
The seat was won by former Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma, an SP leader considered close to Mulayam Singh Yadav, who won on a Congress ticket from here in 2009. He suffered a massive defeat in 2014 and was pushed to fourth position behind SP's Nandita Shukla and BSP's Akbar Ahmad Dumpy.
Kirti Vardhan Singh first won from Gonda in 1998 but his term was short lived as he lost to BJP's Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in 1999.
However, Kirti Vardhan returned to parliament five years later in 2004 but again lost to Congress' Verma in 2009. He emerged victorious in 2014 and defeated SP's Nandita Shukla by 1.6 lakh votes.
Gonda Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Assembly segments: Utraula (Balrampur district), Gaura, Gonda, Mankapur, Mehnaun (Gonda district).
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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