2014 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh explained

Election Name:Indian general election, 2014 (Uttar Pradesh)
Country:India
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh
Previous Year:2009
Next Year:2019
Election Date:10 April − 12 May 2014
Seats For Election:80 seats
Turnout:58.44% (10.65%)
Image1:File:Official portrait of prime minister of India, Narendra Modi (cropped 2).jpg
Leader1:Narendra Modi
Party1:Bharatiya Janata Party
Leaders Seat1:Varanasi
Last Election1:10
Seats1:71
Seat Change1:61
Popular Vote1:34,318,854
Percentage1:42.63%
Swing1:24.80%
Leader2:Mulayam Singh Yadav
Leaders Seat2:Azamgarh
Mainpuri
(Vacated)
Party2:Samajwadi Party
Last Election2:23
Seats2:5
Seat Change2:18
Popular Vote2:17,988,967
Percentage2:22.35%
Swing2:1.06%
Leader3:Rahul Gandhi
Leaders Seat3:Amethi
Party3:Indian National Congress
Last Election3:21
Seats3:2
Seat Change3:19
Popular Vote3:6,061,267
Percentage3:7.53%
Swing3:10.75%
Leader4:Anupriya Patel
Leaders Seat4:Mirzapur
Party4:Apna Dal
Last Election4:0
Seats4:2
Seat Change4:2
Popular Vote4:812,325
Percentage4:1.01%
Swing4:N/A
Leader5:Mayawati
Party5:Bahujan Samaj Party
Leaders Seat5:Not Contested
Last Election5:20
Seats5:0
Seat Change5:20
Popular Vote5:15,914,194
Percentage5:19.77%
Swing5:7.82%
Image6:File:Ajit Singh at press conference.jpg
Leader6:Ajit Singh
Leaders Seat6:Baghpat
(lost)
Party6:Rashtriya Lok Dal
Last Election6:5
Seats6:0
Seat Change6:5
Popular Vote6:689,409
Percentage6:0.86%
Swing6:N/A
Map Size:300px

The 2014 Indian general election polls in Uttar Pradesh for 80 Lok Sabha seats was held in six phases on 10, 17, 24, 30 April and 7, 12 May 2014.[1] The total voter strength of Uttar Pradesh was 134,351,297.[2]

The main political parties in Uttar Pradesh are Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC) and Samajwadi party (SP). BJP allied with Apna Dal and INC allied with Rashtriya Lok Dal and Mahan Dal.[3] [4]

Opinion polling

Conducted in Month(s)RefPolling Organisation/AgencySample sizebgcolor= bgcolor= bgcolor=
UPANDASPBSPOthers
Aug–Oct 2013[5] Times Now-India TV-CVoter24,284 7 17 25 31 0
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 [6] India Today-CVoter21,792 4 30 20 24 2
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 [7] ABP News-Nielsen64,006 12 35 14 15 4
Jan–Feb 2014 [8] Times Now-India TV-CVoter14,000 5 34 20 21 0
Feb 2014 [9] ABP News-Nielsen29,000 11 40 13 14 2
March 2014[10] NDTV- Hansa Research46,571 12 40 13 15 0
March–April 2014[11] CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS2633 4 – 8
42 – 50
11–17 10–16 0–2
30 March – 3 April 2014[12] India Today-Cicero1498 6 – 10
42 – 50
15–21 9–13 0–2
April 2014[13] NDTV- Hansa Research24,000 5 51 14 10 9

Election schedule

Constituency wise Election schedule are given below[1] -

Polling Day Phase DateConstituencies Voting Percentage
1 3 10 April Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar,
Bulandshahr, Aligarh		65[14]
2 517 AprilNagina, Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Amroha, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur,
Kheri		62[15]
3624 April 60.12[16]
4730 April 57[17]
587 MayAmethi, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Phulpur, Allahabad, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich,
Kaiserganj, Shrawasti, Gonda, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Bhadohi		55.5[18]
6912 May55.3[19]

Results

The BJP won 71 seats, a monumental increase from the 10 seats it won in LS 2009 elections. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) which formed government in UP for four times did not win a single seat in this general elections.[20]

71252
BJPApna DalSPINC
Alliance/PartySeatsPopular vote2nd Position3rd Position
ContestedWon+/−Votes%±pp
NDABharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 78 71 61 3,43,18,85442.63 24.80 7 0
Apna Dal22 28,12,3151.000
--785 18 1,79,88,967 22.20 1.06 3130
--80 0 20 1,59,14,19419.60 7.82 34 42
UPAIndian National Congress66 2 19 60,61,2677.50 10.75 6 5
8 0 5 6,89,409 0.86 2.4 1 1

Constituency Wise Results

Keys:

No.ConstituencyTurnout %WinnerPartyVotesRunner UpPartyVotesMargin
1 74.26 Bharatiya Janata Party4,72,999Imran MasoodIndian National Congress65,090
2 73.10 Bharatiya Janata Party5,65,909Nahid HasanSamajwadi Party2,36,628
3 69.74 Bharatiya Janata Party6,53,391Kadir RanaBahujan Samaj Party4,01,150
4 67.88 Bharatiya Janata Party4,86,913Shahnawaz RanaSamajwadi Party2,05,774
5 Nagina (SC) 63.12 Bharatiya Janata Party3,67,825Yashvir SinghSamajwadi Party92,390
6 63.66 Bharatiya Janata Party4,85,224S. T. HasanSamajwadi Party87,504
7 59.27 Bharatiya Janata Party3,58,616Naseer Ahmad KhanSamajwadi Party23,435
8 62.43 Bharatiya Janata Party3,60,242Shafiqur Rahman BarqSamajwadi Party5,174
9 70.97 Bharatiya Janata Party5,28,880Humera AkhtarSamajwadi Party1,58,214
10 63.12 Bharatiya Janata Party5,32,981Mohammed Shahid AkhlaqBahujan Samaj Party2,32,326
11 66.75 Bharatiya Janata Party4,23,475Ghulam MohammedSamajwadi Party2,09,866
12 56.94 Vijay Kumar SinghBharatiya Janata Party7,58,482Raj BabbarIndian National Congress5,67,260
13 60.39 Mahesh SharmaBharatiya Janata Party5,99,702Narendra BhatiSamajwadi Party2,80,212
14 Bulandshahr (SC) 58.18 Bharatiya Janata Party6,04,449Pradeep Kumar JatavBahujan Samaj Party4,21,973
15 59.38 Bharatiya Janata Party5,14,622Arvind Kumar SinghBahujan Samaj Party2,86,736
16 Hathras (SC) 59.66 Bharatiya Janata Party5,44,277Manoj Kumar SoniBahujan Samaj Party3,26,386
17 64.10 Bharatiya Janata Party5,74,633Jayant ChaudharyRashtriya Lok Dal3,30,743
18 Agra (SC) 58.98 Bharatiya Janata Party5,83,716Narayan Singh SumanBahujan Samaj Party3,00,263
19 61.26 Bharatiya Janata Party4,26,589Seema UpadhyayBahujan Samaj Party1,73,106
20 67.49 Akshay YadavSamajwadi Party5,34,583S. P. Singh BaghelBharatiya Janata Party1,14,059
21 60.46 Samajwadi Party5,95,918Shatrughan ChauhanBharatiya Janata Party3,64,666
22 58.72 Bharatiya Janata Party4,74,978Devendra Singh YadavSamajwadi Party2,01,001
23 58.09 Samajwadi Party4,98,378Vagish PathakBharatiya Janata Party1,66,347
24 60.22 Bharatiya Janata Party4,09,907Sarvraj SinghSamajwadi Party1,38,429
25 61.18 Bharatiya Janata Party5,18,258Ayesha IslamSamajwadi Party2,40,685
26 62.86 Maneka GandhiBharatiya Janata Party5,46,934Budhsen VermaSamajwadi Party3,07,052
27 Shahjahanpur (SC) 57.12 Bharatiya Janata Party5,25,132Umed Singh KashyapBahujan Samaj Party2,35,529
28 64.18 Bharatiya Janata Party3,98,578Arvind GiriBahujan Samaj Party1,10,274
29 68.05 Bharatiya Janata Party3,60,357Daud AhmadBahujan Samaj Party1,25,675
30 66.25 Bharatiya Janata Party4,17,546Kaisar JahanBahujan Samaj Party51,027
31 Hardoi (SC) 56.75 Anshul VermaBharatiya Janata PartyShiv Prasad VermaBahujan Samaj Party81,343
32 Misrikh (SC) 57.85 Bharatiya Janata PartyAshok Kumar RawatBahujan Samaj Party87,363
33 55.53 Bharatiya Janata PartyArun Shankar ShuklaSamajwadi Party3,10,173
34 Mohanlalganj (SC) 60.75 Bharatiya Janata PartyR. K. ChaudharyBahujan Samaj Party1,45,416
35 53.06 Bharatiya Janata PartyRita Bahuguna JoshiIndian National Congress2,72,749
36 Rae Bareli51.73 Indian National CongressAjay AgarwalBharatiya Janata Party3,52,713
37 52.39 Indian National CongressSmriti IraniBharatiya Janata Party1,07,903
38 56.66 Feroze Varun GandhiBharatiya Janata PartyPawan PandeyBahujan Samaj Party1,78,902
39 52.12 Apna DalAsif SiddiqueBahujan Samaj Party1,68,222
40 60.15 Bharatiya Janata PartyRameshwar Singh YadavSamajwadi Party1,50,502
41 Etawah (SC) 55.05 Bharatiya Janata PartyPremdas KatheriaSamajwadi Party1,72,946
42 61.62 Dimple YadavSamajwadi PartySubrat PathakBharatiya Janata Party19,907
43 51.83 Bharatiya Janata PartySriprakash JaiswalIndian National Congress2,22,946
44 54.93 Bharatiya Janata PartyAnil Shukla WarsiBahujan Samaj Party2,78,997
45 Jalaun (SC) 58.78 Bharatiya Janata PartyBrijlal KhabriBahujan Samaj Party2,87,202
46 68.37 Bharatiya Janata PartyChandrapal Singh YadavSamajwadi Party1,90,467
47 56.27 Bharatiya Janata PartyBishambar Prasad NishadSamajwadi Party2,66,788
48 53.61 Bharatiya Janata PartyR. K. Singh PatelBahujan Samaj Party1,15,788
49 58.58 Bharatiya Janata PartyAfzal SiddiqueBahujan Samaj Party1,87,206
50 Kaushambi (SC) 52.37 Bharatiya Janata PartyShailendra KumarSamajwadi Party42,900
51 50.20 Bharatiya Janata PartyDharam Raj Singh PatelSamajwadi Party3,08,308
52 53.50 Bharatiya Janata PartyRewati Raman SinghSamajwadi Party62,009
53 Barabanki (SC) 62.06 Bharatiya Janata PartyP. L. PuniaIndian National Congress2,11,878
54 58.82 Bharatiya Janata PartyMitrasen YadavSamajwadi Party2,82,775
55 60.18 Bharatiya Janata PartyRakesh PandeyBahujan Samaj Party1,39,429
56 Bahraich (SC) 57.02 Bharatiya Janata PartyShabbir AhmadSamajwadi Party95,645
57 55.11 Brij Bhushan Sharan SinghBharatiya Janata PartyVinod SinghSamajwadi Party78,218
58 54.82 Bharatiya Janata PartyAtiq AhmedSamajwadi Party85,913
59 51.08 Bharatiya Janata PartyNandita ShuklaSamajwadi Party1,60,416
60 53.08 Jagdambika PalBharatiya Janata PartyMohammed MuqueemBahujan Samaj Party1,03,588
61 58.66 Bharatiya Janata PartyBrij Kishor SinghSamajwadi Party33,562
62 53.15 Bharatiya Janata PartyBhishm ShankarBahujan Samaj Party97,978
63 60.82 Bharatiya Janata PartyKashinath ShuklaBahujan Samaj Party2,40,458
64 54.67 Bharatiya Janata PartyRajmati NishadSamajwadi Party3,12,783
65 56.56 Bharatiya Janata PartyRatanjit Pratap Narain SinghIndian National Congress85,540
66 53.80 Bharatiya Janata PartyNiyaz AhmadBahujan Samaj Party2,65,386
67 Bansgaon (SC) 49.88 Bharatiya Janata PartySadal PrasadBahujan Samaj Party1,89,516
68 Lalganj (SC) 54.14 Bharatiya Janata PartyBechai SarojSamajwadi Party63,086
69 56.40 Samajwadi PartyRamakant YadavBharatiya Janata Party63,204
70 54.99 Bharatiya Janata PartyDara Singh ChauhanBahujan Samaj Party1,46,015
71 51.50 Bharatiya Janata PartyRavi Shankar SinghBahujan Samaj Party2,32,342
72 53.29 Bharatiya Janata PartyNeeraj ShekharSamajwadi Party1,39,434
73 54.48 Bharatiya Janata PartySubhash PandeyBahujan Samaj Party1,46,310
74 Machhlishahr (SC) 52.74 Bharatiya Janata PartyB. P. SarojBahujan Samaj Party1,72,155
75 54.77 Bharatiya Janata PartyShivkanya KushwahaSamajwadi Party32,452
76Chandauli61.56 Mahendra Nath PandeyBharatiya Janata PartyAnil Kumar MauryaBahujan Samaj Party1,56,756
77 58.35 Bharatiya Janata PartyArvind KejriwalAam Aadmi Party3,71,784
78 53.54 Bharatiya Janata PartyRakeshdhar TripathiBahujan Samaj Party1,58,039
79 58.56 Apna DalSamundra BindBahujan Samaj Party2,19,079
80 Robertsganj (SC) 54.05 Bharatiya Janata PartySharada PrasadBahujan Samaj Party1,90,486

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

PartyAssembly segmentsPosition in Assembly (as of 2017 election)
Bharatiya Janata Party328312
919
4247
Apna Dal (Sonelal)99
Indian National Congress157
Others09
Total403

Region-wise Results

RegionTotal seatsBharatiya Janata PartySamajwadi PartyIndian National CongressBahujan Samaj PartyOthers
Bundelkhand4440201010
Central Uttar Pradesh24201916210041
North-East Uttar Pradesh1716131106060
Rohilkhand10971302010
South-East Uttar Pradesh876050021
West Uttar Pradesh171512210060
Total8071615182190202

Notes and References

  1. Web site: General Elections – 2014 : Schedule of Elections. 5 March 2014 . 5 March 2014.
  2. Web site: Election 2017, Election Result, Candidate List, Elections News - NDTV Election.
  3. News: Apna Dal allies with NDA . The Hindu . 25 March 2014 . 26 March 2014.
  4. News: Cong to leave 8 seats for RLD, 3 for Mahan Dal in western UP . The Indian Express. 9 March 2014 . 17 April 2014.
  5. Web site: Congress 102, BJP 162; UPA 117, NDA 186: C-Voter Poll . Outlook . 17 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131016180408/http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10&pid=3061&eid=31 . 16 October 2013 . dead.
  6. Web site: NDA may win over 200 seats as Modi's popularity soars further: India Today Mood of the Nation opinion poll : North, News . India Today . 23 January 2013.
  7. Web site: ABP News nationwide opinion poll: UPA leading in south India, NDA in east. ABP NEWS. 25 January 2014. YouTube.
  8. Web site: India TV C voter projection big gains for BJP .
  9. Web site: ABP News – Nielsen Opinion Poll BJP sweep in UP-SP-BSP hit .
  10. Web site: The Final Word – India's biggest opinion poll . NDTV . 14 March 2014. 14 March 2014.
  11. News: UP tracker: BJP may win 42–50 seats, SP 11–17, BSP 10–16, Cong-RLD 4–8 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140406024142/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/up-tracker-bjp-may-win-4250-seats-sp-1117-bsp-1016-congrld-48/462361-81.html . dead . 6 April 2014 . CNN-IBN . 3 April 2014 . 4 April 2014.
  12. News: Modi wave to take 42–50 seats in UP; 20–24 in Bihar: India Today Group-Cicero poll . India Today . 11 April 2014 . 13 April 2014.
  13. Web site: The Final Word – India's biggest opinion poll . NDTV . 14 April 2014. 15 April 2014.
  14. News: Lok Sabha Election 2014: Third phase polling sees high voter turnout . India Today . 10 April 2014 . 23 April 2014.
  15. News: UP records over 62 per cent voter turnout . India Today . PTI . 17 April 2014 . 23 April 2014.
  16. News: Ashish . Tripathi . High voter turnout may spell bad news for Samajwadi Party in UP . The Times of India. 25 April 2014 . 25 April 2014.
  17. http://news.oneindia.in/india/updates-7th-phase-of-lok-sabha-election-2014-april30-lse-1438841.html 7th phase: 73% voter turnout in Punjab, 60% in Bihar
  18. News: Lok Sabha polls: 56 pc polling in UP, booth trouble for Gandhis . India Today . 7 May 2014 . 7 May 2014.
  19. News: High voter turnout in last lap of Lok Sabha elections; West Bengal notches up 80%. The Financial Express. 12 May 2014.
  20. Web site: Akhilesh Yadav in the family business. Dixit. Neha. The Caravan. en. 2019-05-22.

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