Jaunpur has never elected a sitting MP since 1971.
The BJP has fielded sitting MP Krishna Pratap Singh against BSP's Shyam Singh Yadav and Congress' Devvrata Mishra from Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency which has never elected a sitting MP since 1971.
The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.
Election Results 2019: Sitting BJP MP KP Singh loses to BSP's Shyam Singh Yadav by 80936 votes. SHYAM SINGH YADAV (BSP) - 521128 (50.08%), KP Singh (BJP) - 440192 (42.3%), DEO VRAT MISHRA (Congress) - 27185 (2.61%).
Constituency profile
The constituency is one of the two seats in Jaunpur district in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The Congress had fielded Bhojpuri star Ravi Kishan from here who lost badly. He has now joined the BJP and is contesting from Gorakhpur.
The constituency has a huge number of Thakur voters, (more than 15%) and has sent seven times MPs from the community. The constituency also has a significant number of Yadav voters and every political party relies on caste calculation while fielding a candidate here.
Before KP Singh who won in 2014 with a margin of 1.47 lakh votes, local strongman and a mafia-turned-politician Dhananjay Singh won from here in 2009 on a BSP ticket. He, however, was denied ticket by his party after being arrested by Delhi police over the death of a maid at his home in the national capital.
The constituency was represented by spiritual guru Swami Chinmayanand who was also a minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Parasnath Yadav of the Samajwadi Party has been elected twice - 1998 and 2004 - from here.
The parliamentary constituency comprises five assembly segments: Badlapur, Shahganj, Jaunpur, Malhani and Mungra Badshahpur.
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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