The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.
The sitting MP of Sultanpur is BJP's Varun Gandhi who won the seat in 2014 with a margin of more than 1.78 lakh votes. He is, however, not contesting from here this time and his mother Maneka Gandhi is the BJP candidate in Sultanpur. She is facing Dr Sanjay Sinh of the Congress and BSP's Chandra Bhadra Singh alias Sonu.
The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.
Election Results 2019: BJP's Maneka Gandhi wins by 14,526 votes.
MANEKA GANDHI (BJP) - 459196 (45.91%), CHANDRA BHADRA SINGH "SONU" (BSP) - 444670 (44.45%), Dr. SANJAY SINH (Congress) 41681 (4.17%)
Maneka Gandhi, Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development was elected from Pilibhit parliamentary constituency and her son from Sultanpur Lok Sabha seat in the 2014 general elections. They have swapped the constituencies this time.
The seat was won by Mohammad Tahir of the BSP in 2004 was defeated by Sinh in 2009. However, Sinh did not contest the 2014 election and instead his wife Ameeta Sinh was fielded by the Congress. With little more than 41,000 votes, she was at the fourth position behind Varun Gandhi, BSP's Pawan Pandey and SP's Shakeel Ahmed.
This time, Sultanpur has been at the centre of controversy with statements by both Maneka Gandhi and her son Varun. After filing her nomination papers for the Sultanpur Lok Sabha seat last month, BJP candidate ensured her support to the locals "fight" to rename Sultanpur as Kushbhavanpur.
BSP candidate Chandra Bhadra Singh alias Sonu, a local strongman, was in the BJP and a strong supporter of Varun Gandhi but is now BSP's candidate.
As per 2014 data, Sultanpur parliamentary constituency has 9.64 lakh voters. The constituency comprises five assembly segments: Isauli Sultanpur, Sultanpur Sadar, Lambhua and Kadipur (SC).
Constituency profile
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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