The constituency went to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha election on May 6.
BSP fielded former Uttar Pradesh minister Nakul Dubey against sitting BJP MP Rajesh Verma and Congress nominee Kaiser Jahan. The constituency went to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha election on May 6.
Election Results 2019: BJP's Rajesh Verma defeats BSP's Nakul Dubey by 100833 votes.
Rajesh Verma (BJP) - 514528 (48.33%), Nakul Dubey (BSP) - 413695 (38.86%), Qaiser Jahan (Congress) - 96018 (9.02%)
Constituency profile
One of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Sitapur was won by BJP's Rajesh Verma in 2014 by 50,000 votes. Verma had won from the seat twice on Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket in 1999 and 2004 but shifted to Dhaurahra Lok Sabha constituency in 2009 where he lost to Congress' Jitin Prasada. He left the BSP in 2013 and joined the BJP and contested 2014 election on its ticket from Sitapur. He defeated sitting MP Kaiser Jahan and became an MP for the third time.
In 2019, Kaiser Jahan was denied ticket by the BSP which fielded former Uttar Pradesh minister Nakul Dubey. Jahan joined the Congress and was its nominee against Verma and Dubey.
Shivpal Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) also fielded a candidate.
The parliamentary constituency comprises five assembly segments of Sitapur district: Biswan, Laharpur, Mahmoodabad, Sevata and Sitapur.
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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