The election in Mainpuri is more than a prestige battle for Samajwadi Party as it is the home of party chief Akhilesh Yadav. Saifai, which has become synonymous with Mulayam family, is part of Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency. With Mulayam Singh Yadav contesting from here again, Mainpuri became one the most keenly watched Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.
Mulayam, facing BJP's Prem Singh Shakya in this election, was a favourite to win.
The constituency went to polls in the third phase of Lok Sabha election on April 23.
Election Results 2019: SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav survives Modi wave 2.0, defeats BJP's Prem Singh Shakya by 94,389 votes.
MULAYAM SINGH YADAV (SP) - 524926 (53.75%), PREM SINGH SHAKYA (BJP) - 430537 (44.09%)
Constituency profile
Mainpuri is one of the most high-profile Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh with the seat being held by a member of Samajwadi Party's first family since 2004 when Mulayam Singh Yadav won it for the first time in the general elections.
The campaigning in Mainpuri saw an unprecedented spectacle of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati sharing dias after burying their hatchet after 24 years of Lucknow state guest house episode involving an attack by SP workers on Mayawati for withdrawing support from the Samajwadi Party-led government.
Mulayam Singh Yadav first won from here in 2004 when was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He, however, resigned soon after and chose to stay in UP. He fielded his nephew Dharmendra Yadav, son of SP patriarch's little known brother Abhay Ram Yadav, in the by-poll. In 2009, Dharmendra was shifted to Budaun and Mulayam again contested from Mainpuri. This time, he retained the seat and served as its MP for five years.
In 2014, he contested both from Mainpuri and Azamgarh but chose to retain the latter after winning both. This time, the party filed Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, another nephew of Mulayam, to represent the seat in Lok Sabha. Tej Pratap is the son of Mulayam's elder brother Ratan Singh Yadav and son in law of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.
The Parliamentary constituency comprises five legislative assembly segments - Bhongaon, Jaswantnagar, Karhal, Kishni and Mainpuri.
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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