The Lok Sabha seat was held by BJP's Virendra Singh Mast. The BJP has not re-nominated Mast from here as he has been shifted to contest from Ballia Lok Sabha seat. The party instead fielded Rameshchand Bind to contest from Bhadohi.
BJP's Rameshchand Bind was facing BSP's Rangnath Mishra and Congress' Ramakant Yadav, a Bahubali from Azamgarh who recently left the BJP after being denied ticket.
The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.
Election Result 2019: BJP's Rameshchand Bind defeats BSP's Rangnath Mishra by 43,615.
RAMESH CHAND (BJP) - 510029 (49.07%), RANGNATH MISHRA (BSP) - 466414 (44.87%), RAMAKANT (Congress) - 25604 (2.46%)
15:53 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: RAMESH CHAND (BJP) - 352942 (49.12%), RANGNATH MISHRA (BSP) - 321184 (44.7%)
Constituency profile
The constituency, which covers parts of Bhadohi and Allahabad districts in eastern Uttar Pradesh, came into existence in 2008 following delimitation exercise. The seat has been won by the BJP and the BSP once each.
While Gorakh Nath Pandey of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won from here in 2009 with a margin of just 13,000 votes against SP's Chhotelal Bind, BJP's Virendra Singh Mast secured his victory by 1.58 lakh votes against BSP's Rakesh Dhar Tripathi in 2014.
The parliamentary constituency comprises two Assembly segments of Allahabad district - Pratappur and Handia - and three from Bhadohi district - Bhadohi, Gyanpur and Aurai (SC).
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).
