Rampur Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 UP: Azam Khan defeats Jaya Prada to become first time MP

BJP’s Dr Nepal Singh who won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating SP's Naseer Ahmad Khan was dropped by the party as it fielded Jaya Prada to face Samajwadi Party's Azam Khan.  With Congress throwing its hat in the ring and fielding Sanjay Kapoor, the fight in Rampur became triangular. 

The constituency went to polls in the third phase of Lok Sabha election on April 23. 

Election Results 2019: Former UP minister and senior SP leader Azam Khan wins against Jayaprada by 109997 votes. Mohammad Azam Khan (SP) - 559177 (52.71%), Jayaprada Nahata (BJP) - 449180 (42.34%), Sanjay Kapoor (Congress) 35009 (3.3%)

Constituency profile

The constituency known for sending to Lok Sabha India's first education minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, was at the centre of a bitter battle between the Samajwadi Party's Azam Khan and BJP's Jaya Prada.

The only Muslim majority district in UP, Rampur has been won by the BJP only thrice. Once at the height of Ayodhya movement in 1991, again in 1998 when it fielded a Muslim candidate - Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and in 2014 at the back of the Narendra Modi wave. This time, however, the BJP has dropped its sitting MP Nepal Singh and has fielded Jaya Prada who represented the city in Lok Sabha twice - 2004-09 and 2009-14 - as Samajwadi Party MP before she fell out of favours with Azam Khan. 

The Parliamentary constituency comprises five legislative assembly segments - Suar, Chamraua, Bilaspura, Rampur and Milak.

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).