Sambhal Lok Sabha Election Result 2019 UP: Shafiqur Rahman Barq returns as Sambhal MP, this time on SP ticket

BJP dropped its sitting MP Satyapal Singh Saini who won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating SP's Shafiqur Rahman Barq and fielded Parmeshwar Lal Saini to face Barq in this predominantly Muslim constituency in eastern Uttar Pradesh. 

Barq is a four-time Lok Sabha MP - three terms from Moradabad and one from Sambhal.

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

Election Results 2019: Samajwadi Party's Shafiqur Rahman Barq wins by defeating BJP's Parmeshwar Lal Saini by 1,74,826 votes.

DR. SHAFIQUR REHMAN BARQ (SP) - 658006 (55.6%), PARAMESHVAR LAL SAINI (BJP) - 483180 (40.83%), MAJOR JAGAT PAL SINGH (Congress) - 12105 (1.02%)

Constituency profile

Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency is a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party and has been represented by party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav twice and his brother Ram Gopal Yadav once. However, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) snatched away the seat from SP in 2009 when it fielded Barq to face Iqbal Mehmood of the SP. 

The Parliamentary constituency comprises five legislative assembly segments - Kundarki, Bilari, Chandausi, Asmoli and Sambhal.

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).