Jagdambika Pal won the seat on a Congress ticket in 2009 and on a BJP ticket in 2014.
This election, the BJP has fielded sitting MP Jagdambika Pal who is facing BSP's Aftab Alam and Congress' Chandresh Upadhyay. The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.
Domariyaganj Lok Sabha Election Result 2019: BJP's Jagdambika Pal wins against BSP's Aftab Alam by 1,05,321 votes. JAGDAMBIKA PAL (BJP) - 492253 (49.96%), AFTAB ALAM (BSP) - 386932 (39.27%) CHANDRESH KUMAR UPADHYAY (Congress) - 60549 (6.15%)
16:24 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: JAGDAMBIKA PAL (BJP) - 426359 (50.08%), AFTAB ALAM (BSP) - 330879 (38.8%), CHANDRESH KUMAR UPADHYAY (Congress) - 54962 (6.46%)
Constituency profile
The constituency, part of Siddharth Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh. Pal has won the seat twice - once on a Congress ticket in 2009 and on a BJP ticket in 2014. Pal, most famously known for being the -three-day Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, began his political career with the Congress. He, however, later joined the Congress (Tiwari) when several leaders of the Congress split from the party and formed their own outfit. He later formed Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress and became a minister in Kalyan Singh's government. He served as the state Chief Minister for three days after Kalyan Singh's government was dismissed by Governor Romesh Bhandari.
However, after spending a few years outside the Congress, he re-joined the party and was made state unit chief. He won the Lok Sabha election from Domariyaganj in 2009. However, before the 2014 national election, he left the party to join the BJP and was re-elected from Domariyaganj as the BJP candidate. He defeated BSP's Muhammad Muqeem with a margin of little more than one lakh votes.
Muqueem is also a former MP from Domariyaganj and had won as BSP candidate in 2004, defeating Jagdambika Pal. Before him, BJP's Ram Pal Singh won twice from Domariyaganj - 1998 and 1999.
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).
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