Ballia Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and covers parts of Ballia and Ghazipur districts. BJP's Virendra Singh Mast is pitted against SP's Sanatan Pandey and CPI's Santhosh Pratap Singh.
The constituency went to polls in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 19.
Election Results 2019
21:10 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: Virendra Singh Mast (BJP) - 469114 (47.4%), Sanatan Pandey (SP) - 453595 (45.83%)
18:27 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: Virendra Singh (BJP) - 462798 (47.3%), Sanatan Pandey (SP) - 449193 (45.91%)
17:33 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: Virendra Singh Mast (BJP) - 409790 (46.55%), Sanatan Pandey (SP) - 408364 (46.39%)
16:30 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: BJP's Virendra Singh Mast trailing behind SP's Sanatan Pandey by 2,500 votes - Virendra Singh Mast (BJP) - 331186 (46.49%), Sanatan Pandey (SP) - 333709 (46.84%)
13:49 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: Virendra Singh (BJP) - 230127 (48.69%), Sanatan Pandey (SP) - 215080 (45.5%)
Constituency profile
Represented by iconic socialist leader and former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar for eight terms, this was one of the many seats the BJP won for the first time in 2014.
Ballia Lok Sabha seat is currently represented by BJP's Bharat Singh who defeated Samajwadi Party's Neeraj Shekhar by 1.39 lakh votes. Neeraj, son of Chandra Shekhar, had won the seat twice - 2007 bypoll and 2009 general elections - on SP ticket after the death of his father.
This time, the BJP has dropped Bharat Singh and has instead fielded Virendra Singh Mast who won the last election from Bhadohi. He is pitted against SP's Sanatan Pandey and CPI's Santhosh Prathap Singh.
The Congress has not fielded any candidate from here.
The parliamentary constituency consists of five assembly segments: Phephana, Ballia Nagar, Bairia (Ballia district); Zahoorabad, Mohammadabad (Ghazipur district).
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: State Profile
In the last parliamentary elections in 2014, the BJP had won 71 seats in the state, securing 42.63 per cent of the votes. BJP ally Apna Dal bagged two more. The Samajwadi Party had won five seats with a vote share of 22.35 per cent. The BSP did not win any seat but secured 19.77 per cent votes. The Congress registered wins on two UP seats in 2014, bagging 7.53 per cent of the votes.
UP is facing a triangular battle between the BJP, the Congress and BSP-SP-RLD alliance. Under the alliance's seat-sharing formula, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting on 38 Lok Sabha seats of the total 80 seats, Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party on 37 seats and the Chaudhary Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on three seats. The alliance has left two for Congress' Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi).
