Lok Sabha elections 2019: It’s a triangular fight in UP’s Pratapgarh constituency

So far, 15 Lok Sabha elections have been held and the Congress party has been the most successful by winning the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha seat nine times. The SP, BSP, Jana Sangh, Janata Dal and Apna Dal have won the elections once each.

Voters in the Pratapgarh parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh have not elected the same party twice after 1989.

Poll officials leaving for voting booths ahead of May 6 elections in Uttar Pradesh. (PTI file photo)

So far, 15 Lok Sabha elections have been held and the Congress party has been the most successful by winning the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha seat nine times. The Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, Jana Sangh, Janata Dal and Apna Dal have won the elections once each.

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The Pratapgarh Lok Sabha seat has the assembly constituencies of Raniganj, Rampur Khas, Vishwanathganj, Patti and Pratapgarh.

It has a sizeable Muslim population and Brahmins and Thakurs are also an important electorate here. Kurmis, an OBC community, are also quite influential and Apna Dal, which won the seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election is influential among the community.

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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.

State: Uttar Pradesh

Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Pratapgarh

Polling date: May 12

2019 candidates: Ashok Kumar Tripathi (BSP), Sangam Lal Gupta (BJP), Ratna Singh (Congress)

Sitting MP, party: Kuwar Harivansh Singh, Apna Dal

Winning margin in 2014: 168,222

Runner up name, party: Asif Nizamuddin Siddique, BSP

Number of voters in 2014: 894,456

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 52.11%

Number of women voters in 2014: 792,957

Number of polling booths in 2014: 1719