Kanpur is one of the 11 parliamentary constituencies in UP where the SP-BSP have never been able to register a victory.
Kanpur became a talk of the town after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decided to drop its sitting MP and veteran party leader Murli Manohar Joshi. The party fielded Satyadev Pachauri, a minister in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh government, against Congress' Sriprakash Jaiswal and SP's Ram Kumar.
The constituency went to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections on April 29.
Election Results 2019: UP minister Satyadev Pachauri defeats Congress's Sriprakash Jaiswal by 155934 votes.
Satyadev Pachauri (BJP) - 468937 (55.63%), Sriprakash Jaiswal (Congress) - 313003 (37.13%), Ram Kumar (SP) - 48275 (5.73%)
Constituency profile
Joshi had first won the seat in 2014 by defeating incumbent Sriprakash Jaiswal, a minister in Manmohan Singh government, with a margin of 2.2 lakh votes. Kanpur is one of the 11 parliamentary constituencies in UP where the SP-BSP have never been able to register a victory.
Priyanka, the Congress general secretary and eastern Uttar Pradesh in-charge, held a massive roadshow in the city in the last week of the campaign and attacked the Narendra Modi government and stressed that the Congress works for the people, while the BJP only favours industrialists.
Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency comprises five assembly segmets of Kanpur Nagar district: Aryanagar, Sisamau, Generalganj, Kanpur Cantt and Govindnagar.
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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