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Lalganj Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 UP: BSP's Sangeeta Azad defeats sitting BJP MP Neelam Sonker by 1.6 lakh votes.

Lalganj is one of the two seats in Azamgarh district of UP.

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The constituency is one of the two seats in Azamgarh district of UP. While the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency is facing a contest between SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua', this Scheduled caste reserved seat is also being heavily contested. The BJP has Neelam Sonkar who is pitted against BSP's Sangeeta Azad and Congress' Pankaj Mohan Sonkar.

The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.

Election Results 2019: BSP's Sangeeta Azad defeats sitting BJP MP Neelam Sonker by 1,61,597 votes. Sangeeta Azad (BSP) - 518820 (54.01%), Neelam Sonker (BJP) - 357223 (37.19%), Pankaj Mohan Sonkar (Congress) - 17630 (1.84%).

Constituency profile

 The constituency is one of the two seats in Azamgarh district of UP. While the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency is facing a contest between SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua', this Scheduled caste reserved seat is also being heatly contested. 

The constituency has stayed a reserved seat for scheduled caste candidates since it came into existence in 1962. In five elections from 1996 to 2009, the seat has oscillated between Samajwadi Party's Daroga Prasad Saroj and Bahujan Samaj Party's Balli Ram. While Balli Ram won it in 1996, 1999 and 2009, Saroj won its 1998 and 2004. However, the BJP scored its first victory here with Neelam Sonkar defeating SP's Bechai Saroj by 84,000 votes. 

The parliamentary constituency comprises five Assembly segments, namely Atrauliya, Nizamabad, Phoolpur Pawai, Didarganj and Lalganj (all in Azamgarh 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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