Lucknow election results 2019: BJP has not lost UP’s Lucknow seat since 1991

Lucknow election results 2019: Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of members to Parliament at 80, will go to polls in all the seven phases of the Lok Sabha election 2019. Votes will be counted on May 23.

The Lucknow parliamentary constituency is one of the three VIP seats along with Amethi and Rae Bareli in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh.

Lucknow election results 2019: First time voter shukla sisters clicks their selfie after casing vote for Lok sabha elections at Manik Lal maidan, Ghatkopar in Mumbai, India, on Monday, April 29, 2019. (Photo by Satish Bate/Hindustan Times) (Satish Bate/HT Photo)

A bastion of the Bharatiya Janata Party since the 10th Lok Sabha election, Lucknow elected Atal Bihari Vajpayee for a record five times consecutively. Vajpayee’s prodigy Lalji Tandon represented the seat till 2014 after the former prime minister retired from active politics.

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In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the highly urbanised constituency was won by Rajnath Singh. He defeated Rita Bahuguna Joshi, who was then with the Congress and is now a minister in the Yogi Adityanath government after joining the BJP.

Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of members to Parliament at 80, went for polls in all the seven phases of the Lok Sabha election 2019. Rajnath Singh is presently in the lead according to the election results 2019.

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Here are a few details about the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat:

State: Uttar Pradesh

Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Lucknow

Polling date: May 6

2019 candidates: Rajnath Singh (BJP), Poonam Sinha (SP)

Sitting MP, party: Rajnath Singh

Winning margin in 2014: 272,749

Runner up name, party: Rita Bahuguna Joshi

Number of voters in 2014: 1,033,783

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 53.02%

Number of women voters in 2014: 897,785

Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,728