2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh explained

Election Name:	Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh, 2009
Country:	India
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh, 2004
Previous Year:	2004
Next Election:	Indian general election, 2014 (Uttar Pradesh)
Next Year:	2014
Election Date:	April–May 2009
Seats For Election:	80 seats
Turnout:	47.79%
Image1:	File:Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Shri.Mulayam Singh Yadav, addressing at the National Development Council, New Delhi on December 9, 2006 (cropped).jpg
Leader1:	Mulayam Singh Yadav
Party1:	Samajwadi Party
Alliance1:	Fourth Front
Leaders Seat1:	Mainpuri
Seats1:	23
Seat Change1:	12
Percentage1:	23.26%
Leader2:	Sonia Gandhi
Leaders Seat2:	Rae Bareli
Party2:	INC
Seats2:	21
Seat Change2:	12
Percentage2:	18.25%
Image3:	File:Mayawati.jpg
Leader3:	Mayawati
Leaders Seat3:	Not contested
Party3:	Bahujan Samaj Party
Alliance3:	Third Front
Seats3:	20
Seat Change3:	1
Percentage3:	27.42%
Image4:	File:Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh.jpg
Leader4:	Rajnath Singh
Leaders Seat4:	Ghaziabad
Party4:	Bharatiya Janata Party
Alliance4:	National Democratic Alliance
Seats4:	10
Percentage4:	20.27%
Map Size:	300px

Before Party:	Samajwadi Party
After Party:	Samajwadi Party
Alliance2:	UPA

The 2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh were held for 80 seats with the state going to polls across all the five phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Indian National Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Fourth Front. NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal whereas the fourth front was constituted of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).

After counting on 16 May 2009, to everyone's surprise, national parties, Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, did extremely well, while regional parties, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, did worse than expected. The results showed a split between SP, BSP and INC, leading each of them winning a fair share of seats in the state. The campaigning by Rahul Gandhi proved to be very effective and his decision for Indian National Congress, to go alone in Uttar Pradesh, worked in their favour, since they ended up picking up 21 seats.

After the election, the success of the Bharatiya Janata Party, according to UP BJP leader was, the split of the Muslim votes away from SP to Congress, due to Kalyan Singh supporting the SP and the division of Dalit votes between BSP and Congress, led to success for BJP and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal. This split also benefited Congress, since they were able bag many seats, that are usually won by either SP or BSP.

Voting and results

Source: Election Commission of India^[1]

Results by alliance

UPA	SEATS	NDA	SEATS	TF+	SEATS	Fourth Front	SEATS	Others	SEATS
INC	21	BJP	10	BSP	20	SP	23	IND	1
		RLD	5
TOTAL (2009)	21	TOTAL (2009)	15	TOTAL (2009)	20	TOTAL (2009)	23	TOTAL (2009)	1
TOTAL (2004)	9	TOTAL (2004)	11	TOTAL (2004)	19*	TOTAL (2004)	35*	TOTAL (2004)	6

Since the Third and Fourth front did not exist in 2004, the results in 2004 represents seats won by BSP in Third Front and SP in Fourth Front.

List of elected MPs

Note that almost all the constituencies here were seriously overhauled afterthe delimitation commission. Hence the results for 2009 reflect a differentdemographic distribution. The winner from 2004 has been reported if theconstituency name is the same, but this may reflect a completely differentbasket of districts.

Sources: Winner 2009 data (first 3 columns): ECI website; Winner 2004 data from 14th Lok Sabha page; sometimes these MPs may have been elected in a later by-election. Margin is from http://koyippally.blogspot.com/2009/05/election-2009-is-over.html.

Mayawati (BSP); in the by-elections, the Akbarpur seat was lost to the BSP – it went to Shankhlal Majhi (SP),
Mulayam Singh Yadav (SP), Mainpuri went to Dharmendra Yadav (SP), and
Narendra Kushwaha (BSP), who was expelled for accepting bribes in the Operation Duryodhana scam – Mirzapur seat went to Ramesh Dube (BSP)..

No.	Constituency	Turnout %	Winning Candidate		Margin
1	Saharanpur	63.25	Jagdish Singh Rana	Bahujan Samaj Party	84,873
2	Kairana	56.59	Tabassum Begum	Bahujan Samaj Party	23,429
3	Muzaffarnagar	54.44	Kadir Rana	Bahujan Samaj Party	20,598
4	Bijnor	55.01	Sanjay Singh Chauhan	Rashtriya Lok Dal	18,142
5	Nagina (SC)	53.78	Yashvir Singh	Samajwadi Party	46,585
6	Moradabad	54.82	Mohammed Azharuddin	Indian National Congress	47,454
7	Rampur	52.50	Jaya Prada Nahata	Samajwadi Party	30,931
8	Sambhal	52.83	Shafiqur Rahman Barq	Bahujan Samaj Party	13,464
9	Amroha	60.20	Devendra Nagpal	Rashtriya Lok Dal	92,083
10	Meerut	48.23	Rajendra Agrawal	Bharatiya Janata Party	26,877
11	Baghpat	47.93		Rashtriya Lok Dal	63,027
12	Ghaziabad	45.30	Rajnath Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	90,681
13	Gautam Buddh Nagar	48.54	Surendra Singh Nagar	Bahujan Samaj Party	20,330
14	Bulandshahr (SC)	45.08	Kamlesh	Samajwadi Party	65,717
15	Aligarh	51.48	Raj Kumari Chauhan	Bahujan Samaj Party	9,145
16	Hathras (SC)	45.10	Sarika Singh	Rashtriya Lok Dal	36,833
17	Mathura	54.15	Jayant Chaudhary	Rashtriya Lok Dal	1,36,193
18	Agra (SC)	42.03	Ram Shankar Katheria	Bharatiya Janata Party	17,270
19	Fatehpur Sikri	51.56	Seema Upadhyay	Bahujan Samaj Party	6,091
20	Firozabad	48.16	Raj Babbar	Indian National Congress	67,301
21	Mainpuri	49.67	Mulayam Singh Yadav	Samajwadi Party	1,64,604
22	Etah	44.46	Kalyan Singh	Independent	1,28,268
23	Badaun	52.46	Dharmendra Yadav	Samajwadi Party	32,542
24	Aonla	53.78	Menaka Gandhi	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,654
25	Bareilly	50.36	Praveen Singh Aron	Indian National Congress	9,338
26	Pilibhit	63.96	Varun Gandhi	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,81,501
27	Shahjahanpur (SC)	48.68	Mithlesh Kumar	Samajwadi Party	70,579
28	Kheri	54.59	Zafar Ali Naqvi	Indian National Congress	8,777
29	Dhaurahra	59.83	Kunwar Jitin Prasad	Indian National Congress	1,84,509
30	Sitapur	57.31	Kaisar Jahan	Bahujan Samaj Party	19,632
31	Hardoi	40.55	Usha Verma	Samajwadi Party	92,935
32	Misrikh (SC)	41.50	Ashok Kumar Rawat	Bahujan Samaj Party	23,292
33	Unnao	49.73	Annu Tandon	Indian National Congress	3,02,076
34	Mohanlalganj (SC)	46.32	Sushila Saroj	Samajwadi Party	76,595
35	Lucknow	35.33	Lalji Tandon	Bharatiya Janata Party	40,901
36	Rae Bareli	48.33	Sonia Gandhi	Indian National Congress	3,72,165
37	Amethi	45.16	Rahul Gandhi	Indian National Congress	3,31,910
38	Sultanpur	49.47	Sanjay Singh	Indian National Congress	98,779
39	Pratapgarh	44.66	Rajkumari Ratna Singh	Indian National Congress	17,619
40	Farrukhabad	46.78	Salman Khursheed	Indian National Congress	16,347
41	Etawah (SC)	45.04	Premdas Katheria	Samajwadi Party	44,711
42	Kannauj	49.32	Akhilesh Yadav	Samajwadi Party	1,15,864
43	Kanpur	36.90	Sriprakash Jaiswal	Indian National Congress	18,906
44	Akbarpur	43.63	Raja Ram Pal	Indian National Congress	32,043
45	Jalaun (SC)	47.34	Ghanshyam Anuragi	Samajwadi Party	3,607
46	Jhansi	55.17	Pradeep Jain Aditya	Indian National Congress	47,670
47	Hamirpur	48.40	Vijay Bahadur Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	25,893
48	Banda	44.71	R. K. Singh Patel	Samajwadi Party	34,593
49	Fatehpur	45.19	Rakesh Sachan	Samajwadi Party	52,228
50	Kaushambi (SC)	39.63	Shailendra Kumar	Samajwadi Party	28,288
51	Phulpur	38.71	Kapil Muni Karwariya	Bahujan Samaj Party	14,578
52	Allahabad	43.41		Samajwadi Party	34,920
53	Barabanki (SC)	52.28	PL Punia	Indian National Congress	1,67,913
54	Faizabad	49.94	Nirmal Khatri	Indian National Congress	54,228
55	Ambedkar Nagar	54.29	Rakesh Pandey	Bahujan Samaj Party	10,124
56	Bahraich (SC)	41.12		Indian National Congress	38,953
57	Kaiserganj	41.10	Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh	Samajwadi Party	45,974
58	Shrawasti	43.06	Vinay Kumar Pandey	Indian National Congress	42,029
59	Gonda	45.18	Beni Prasad Verma	Indian National Congress	23,675
60	Domariyaganj	49.21	Jagdambika Pal	Indian National Congress	46,871
61	Basti	49.26	Arvind Kumar Chaudhary	Bahujan Samaj Party	1,05,210
62	Sant Kabir Nagar	47.29		Bahujan Samaj Party	25,846
63	Maharajganj	55.63	Harsh Vardhan	Indian National Congress	1,23,628
64	Gorakhpur	44.27	Yogi Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,42,433
65	Kushi Nagar	50.84	Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh	Indian National Congress	19,153
66	Deoria	45.40	Gorakh Prasad Jaiswal	Bahujan Samaj Party	28,160
67	Bansgaon (SC)	39.07	Kamlesh Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party	42,239
68	Lalganj (SC)	43.62	Bali Ram	Bahujan Samaj Party	39,948
69	Azamgarh	44.64	Ramakant Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party	48,494
70	Ghosi	45.23	Dara Singh Chauhan	Bahujan Samaj Party	42,990
71	Salempur	39.28	Ramashankar Rajbhar	Bahujan Samaj Party	28,645
72	Ballia	40.37	Neeraj Shekhar	Samajwadi Party	72,429
73	Jaunpur	45.97	Dhananjay Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	80,351
74	Machhlishahr (SC)	41.00	Tufani Saroj	Samajwadi Party	29,019
75	Ghazipur	50.43	Radhey Mohan Singh	Samajwadi Party	69,260
76	Chandauli	46.41	Ramkishun	Samajwadi Party	2,387
77	Varanasi	42.61	Murli Manohar Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	17,211
78	Bhadohi	43.39	Gorakh Nath Pandey	Bahujan Samaj Party	12,963
79	Mirzapur	52.18	Bal Kumar Patel	Samajwadi Party	21,504
80	Robertsganj (SC)	49.30	Pakauri Lal	Samajwadi Party	50,259

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Election Commission of India . 19 May 2009 . 21 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090521143146/http://eci.nic.in// . dead .