Uttar Pradesh election results 2024 highlights: Samajwadi Party emerges as the big winner, Rahul Gandhi wins Rae Bareli

BJP candidate Maneka Gandhi lost the Sultanpur seat to the Samajwadi Party’s Rambhual Nishad by a margin of 43,174 votes, according to Election Commission figures.

While Mr. Nishad secured 4,44,330 votes, Ms. Gandhi got 4,01,156 votes, according to the EC website.

The third placed Udayraj Verma of the BSP secured 1,63,025 votes.

The Samajwadi Party won 18 seats and is leading in 19 seats taking its total tally to 37 seats. The Congress has won 4 seats and is leading in 2 seats. The RLD has won one seat and is leading in one seat. The BJP has won 18 seats and is leading in 15 seats, thus, its total tally is 33 seats. 

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wins from Rae Bareli by margin of 3,90,030 votes, the Election Commission has announced. Mr. Gandhi secured a total of 6,87,649 votes against the BJP’s Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 2,97,619 votes. BSP’s Thakur Prasad Yadav secured 21,624 votes.

Congress Rahul Gandhi said that INDIA bloc would meet on Wednesday to decide if it would approach former partners like the JD(U) and the TDP and attempt to form the government at the Centre. “We are going to have a meeting with our partners tomorrow. These questions will be raised and answered there,” he said.

He also thanked the electorate of Uttar Pradesh for supporting Congress and ‘protecting’ the Constitution. He also said his party Amethi candidate K.L. Sharma’s victory was certain.

His party Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) used the slogan “Saari Party Dekh Li, Ab Ki Baar Ketli [We have tested all parties, now it is teapot’s turn]” during the campaign to signify its decision to go it alone in the polls.

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Mr. Sharma who hails from Punjab’s Ludhiana, began his stint with Rajiv Gandhi, managing the Amethi Lok Sabha seat for him. The former PM won this seat four times in 1981, 1984, 1989 and posthumously in 1991. Currently, he has a lead of more than one lakh votes over Smriti Irani.

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Of the 94 seats the BJP won in the last three Lok Sabha elections, it leads in 79 and trails in 15 in 2024. The trends are based on data published until 11.45 am. The numbers will be updated as more votes are counted.

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The Samajwadi Party and Congress of the INDIA bloc are leading in 37 and 7 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission’s data for polls to the 80 parliamentary constituencies showed. The BJP-led NDA leads in 35 seats.

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In 2021, Ajay Kumar’s son Ashish Mishra was accused in the killing of four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri. The farmers were mowed to death by a convoy of the MP’s cars, one of which was allegedly driven by his son Ashish.

SP candidate Mr. Verma is leading in the constituency by over 30,000 votes.

Mr. Prasad is now leading in the constituency with a margin of almost 15,000 votes. 

On the last working day of the 17th Lok Sabha on February 10, both Houses of Parliament passed a resolution terming the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya (in Faizabad constituency) as ushering in a “new era of governance and public welfare”, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his valedictory address later, stated that the resolution by both Houses would give “constitutional power to the generations to come to be proud of our values.”

Samajwadi Party is ahead in 37 seats. It contested the Lok Sabha election in UP in alliance with Congress, which itself is ahead in seven seats.

The BJP is leading in 33 seats. Its allies Rashtriya Lok Dal and Apna Dal (Soneylal) are leading in one seat each.

Akhilesh Yadav is building a comfortable majority in Kannauj. His wife Dimple Yadav is ahead in Mainpuri, and so is Dharmendra Yadav in Azamgarh, and Akshaya Yadav in Firozabad. 

Aditya Yadav, son of Shivpal Singh Yadav, is trailing in Badaun constituency.

Mr. Govil, who played Ram in a popular television series in the 1980s, is trailing behind Samajwadi Party candidate Sunita Verma by almost 12,000 votes. 

BJP leaders Varun Gandhi and his mother Maneka Gandhi had not attended the rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, in April, despite the two holding the Lok Sabha seat interchangeably since 1996.

Samajwadi Party candidate Rambhual Nishad is leading in Sultanpur.

Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani is trailing in Amethi by over 60,000 votes. 

Mr. Sharma, a Gandhi family loyalist, used to handle the constituency office for Rae Bareli for Sonia Gandhi. He also handled the constituency office for Amethi in the early years of Rahul Gandhi’s membership of the Lok Sabha from there.

Afzal Ansari, brother of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari who died of cardiac arrest in March in prison, is ahead in Ghazipur. 

Mr. Afzal Ansari is seeking another term in the constituency, and the shadow of his younger brother, five-time U.P. legislator Mukhtar Ansari, looms large.

Ayodhya’s Ram temple was invoked multiple times by BJP leaders during their campaign in the State. The consecration of the temple was led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2024.

Live telecast of the consecration led by PM Modi was shown on large screens at temples as well as BJP offices. Rashtriya Swayam Sevak workers and Sangh sympathisers had planted saplings at several places in celebration of the occasion.

According to the latest leads, NDA is leading in 37 out of 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh. 

Samajwadi Party and Congress -- both members of the INDIA bloc -- are leading in 42 constituencies. Samajwadi Party is consistently asking its members to stand firm at counting centres while the votes are counted.

This is Azad Samaj Party’s first Lok Sabha election. 

Chandrashekhar Azad, the party leader, went door-to-door, asking for votes. The party used the chant “Saari Party Dekh Li, Ab Ki Baar Ketli [We have tested all parties, now it is teapot’s turn]” during its campaign. 

After trailing behind Congress candidate Ajay Rai as per early trends, PM Modi is back ahead in Varanasi constituency where he has won the last two elections from.

PM Modi is seeking reelection to remain the leader of the country for a third term. 

BJP leader Jitin Prasada, who replaced Mr. Gandhi, is comfortably ahead in the constituency. 

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is comfortably ahead in Congress’ legacy seat of Rae Bareli which his mother Sonia Gandhi held for two decades.

Smriti Irani, the Minister of Women and Child Development in Narendra Modi’s cabinet, is trailing behind Congress candidate Kishori Lal in Amethi.

Congress leader Ajay Rai is leading in Prime Minister’s constituency. Mr. Modi won the 2014 and 2019 election from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, and he is not contesting from any other constituency in 2024.

BJP is leading in 27 seats, and Samajwadi Party is ahead in 26. 

Congress, on the other hand, is only ahead in six. It contested in 17 seats in Uttar Pradesh, and the remaining 63 seats were divided among SP and other INDIA bloc parties.

The leads, however, put INDIA bloc ahead of NDA in Uttar Pradesh.

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Early trends predict a tight contest in Uttar Pradesh, with BJP leading in six constituencies. Samajwadi Party is leading in five, and Congress is ahead in two constituencies.

At a press conference held in Lucknow, Mr. Yadav said the INDIA bloc would register a landslide victory that would be a victory for the country and its people. He said he had got an internal survey done that showed good numbers for the INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh.

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