The BJP-led NDA and opposition INDIA bloc were neck-and-neck in the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh after initial rounds of vote counting on June 4.
The Congress and Samajwadi Party, both constituents of the INDIA bloc which was formed in July last year to dislodge the BJP at the Centre were leading in 6 and 37 seats.
Trends showed that the Bharatiya Janata Party and its coalition partners Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Apna Dal (Sonelal) in the state were leading in 33, 2 and 1 constituencies respectively.
The Bahujan Samaj Party, which had won 10 seats in the last Lok Sabha polls figured nowhere in the list of the Election Commission of India.
As per Election Commission's website, ruling BJP was leading in constituencies such as Kairana, Badaun, Etah, Hardoi, Unnao, Rampur among others. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was leading from Varanasi.
Uttar Pradesh sends 80 parliamentarians to the 543-member strong Lok Sabha. This time, the SP and Congress have sealed a pre-poll alliance. The Congress fielded its candidates in 17 seats, while its regional partner Samajwadi Party fielded 63 candidates in the Lok Sabha polls under seat-sharing pact.
{{/usCountry}}Uttar Pradesh sends 80 parliamentarians to the 543-member strong Lok Sabha. This time, the SP and Congress have sealed a pre-poll alliance. The Congress fielded its candidates in 17 seats, while its regional partner Samajwadi Party fielded 63 candidates in the Lok Sabha polls under seat-sharing pact.
{{/usCountry}}The principal opposition Congress was leading in seats such as Saharanpur, Amroha, Fatehpur Sikri, Sitapur, Barabanki, Rae Bareli and Amethi and Allahabad.
The Congress has fielded Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli, while Kishori Lal Sharma was running against Union minister Smriti Irani in Amethi.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP had won 62 seats in Uttar Pradesh, decimating the Congress, which managed to win just one seat.
Here is a full list of candidates who are leading in the Lok Sabha election from Uttar Pradesh
| Candidate | Party | Constituency | Status | Votes | State |
| Awadhesh Prasad | SP | Faizabad | LEAD | 552177 | Uttar Pradesh |
| R K Chaudhary | SP | Mohanlalganj (SC) | LEAD | 603191 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Harendra Singh Malik | SP | Muzaffarnagar | LEAD | 450198 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Kishori Lal | INC | Amethi | LEAD | 536680 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Iqra Choudhary | SP | Kairana | LEAD | 523692 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Rambhual Nishad | SP | Sultanpur | LEAD | 442027 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Naval Kishor Shakya | SP | Farrukhabad | LEAD | 460622 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ram Prasad Chaudhary | SP | Basti | LEAD | 523487 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Shiv Pal Singh Patel | SP | Pratapgarh | LEAD | 439836 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Laxmikant Pappu Nishad | SP | Sant Kabir Nagar | LEAD | 475603 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Rajkumar Sangwan | RLD | Baghpat | LEAD | 482397 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Akhilesh Yadav | SP | Kannauj | LEAD | 640207 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Narayan Das Ahirwar | SP | Jalaun (SC) | LEAD | 529833 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Priya Saroj | SP | Machhlishahr (SC) | LEAD | 435931 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Akshaya Yadav | SP | Firozabad | LEAD | 543037 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Naresh Chandra Uttam Patel | SP | Fatehpur | LEAD | 497887 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Krishna Devi Shivshanker Patel | SP | Banda | LEAD | 406004 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Pushpendra Saroj | SP | Kaushambi (SC) | LEAD | 509787 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Amar Nath Singh Maurya | SP | Phulpur | LEAD | 434033 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Devesh Shakya | SP | Etah | LEAD | 453450 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Ujjwal Raman Singh | INC | Allahabad | LEAD | 460277 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Aditya Yadav | SP | Badaun | LEAD | 446933 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Neeraj Maurya | SP | Aonla | LEAD | 492515 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Utkarsh Verma | SP | Kheri | LEAD | 555277 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Anand Bhadauriya | SP | Dhaurahra | LEAD | 442650 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Rakesh Rathor | INC | Sitapur | WON | 531138 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Birendra Singh | SP | Chandauli | LEAD | 474476 | Uttar Pradesh |
| Sanatan Pandey | SP | Ballia | LEAD | 315983 | Uttar Pradesh |