Sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh contested against Congress' Nirmal Khatri and Anand Sen of the Samajwadi Party. The constituency went to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 6.
Faizabad Lok Sabha Election Result 2019: Sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh defeats SP's Anand Sen to retain seat. LALLU SINGH (BJP) - 529021 (48.66%), ANAND SEN (SP) - 463544 (42.64%), NIRMAL KHATRI (Congress) - 53386 (4.91%)
16:57 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: LALLU SINGH (BJP) - 435373 (49.03%), ANAND SEN (SP) - 373951 (42.11%), NIRMAL KHATRI (Congress) - 44767 (5.04%)
Constituency profile
Lallu Singh won in 2014 elections by defeating Samajwadi Party's Mitrasen Yadav with a margin of 2.82 lakh votes. Congress' Nirmal Khatri was pushed back to the fourth position in 2014 behind Lallu Singh, Mitrasen Yadav and BSP's Jitendra Kumar Singh.
Khatri had won the seat in 2009 elections, the first victory for the Congress since 1984 in the seat which has been at the centre of a national controversy over Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. Incidentally, the 1984 win was also scored by Khatri who was then only 33 years old.
In 2009, Khatri had defeated Mitrasen Yadav of the SP. Yadav first won from Faizabad in 1989 on a Communist Party of India (CPI) ticket. In 1991, he lost to Bajrang Dal founder and Hindutva activist Vinay Katiyar. Yadav joined the joined Samajwadi Party (SP) in 1995 and contested the 1996 election on its ticket but again lost to Katiyar. In 1998, he was able to defeat Katiyar to again enter the Lok Sabha. After switching between SP and BSP twice, he contested 2004 election on a BSP ticket and was able to score a win.
He again joined the SP in 2009 but again lost, this time to Congress' Nirmal Khatri. Yadav and Khatri were defeated by four-time UP MLA Lallu Singh in 2014.
Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency comprises four assembly segments of Faizabad district and one Vidhan Sabha constituency of Barabanki district: Dariyabad (Barabanki), Rudauli, Milkipur, Bikapur and Ayodhya (Faizabad).
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).
