2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

The 2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh were held for 80 seats with the state going to polls across all the five phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Indian National Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Fourth Front. NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal whereas the fourth front was constituted of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).

Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh, 2009

April–May 2009
80 seats
Turnout	47.79%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mulayam Singh Yadav Sonia Gandhi Mayawati Party SP INC BSP Alliance Fourth Front UPA Third Front Leader's seat Mainpuri Rae Bareli Not contested Seats won 23 21 20 Seat change 12 12 1 Percentage 23.26% 18.25% 27.42%   Fourth party   Leader Rajnath Singh Party BJP Alliance NDA Leader's seat Ghaziabad Seats won 10 Seat change Percentage 20.27%
Uttar Pradesh

After counting on 16 May 2009, to everyone's surprise, national parties, Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, did extremely well, while regional parties, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, did worse than expected. The results showed a split between SP, BSP and INC, leading each of them winning a fair share of seats in the state. The campaigning by Rahul Gandhi proved to be very effective and his decision for Indian National Congress, to go alone in Uttar Pradesh, worked in their favour, since they ended up picking up 21 seats.

After the election, the success of the Bharatiya Janata Party, according to UP BJP leader was, the split of the Muslim votes away from SP to Congress, due to Kalyan Singh supporting the SP and the division of Dalit votes between BSP and Congress, led to success for BJP and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal. This split also benefited Congress, since they were able bag many seats, that are usually won by either SP or BSP.

Voting and results

Source: Election Commission of India

Results by alliance

UPA	SEATS	NDA	SEATS	TF+	SEATS	Fourth Front	SEATS	Others	SEATS
INC	21	BJP	10	BSP	20	SP	23	IND	1
		RLD	5
TOTAL (2009)	21	TOTAL (2009)	15	TOTAL (2009)	20	TOTAL (2009)	23	TOTAL (2009)	1
TOTAL (2004)	9	TOTAL (2004)	11	TOTAL (2004)	19*	TOTAL (2004)	35*	TOTAL (2004)	6

• Since the Third and Fourth front did not exist in 2004, the results in 2004 represents seats won by BSP in Third Front and SP in Fourth Front.

List of elected MPs

Note that almost all the constituencies here were seriously overhauled after the delimitation commission. Hence the results for 2009 reflect a different demographic distribution. The winner from 2004 has been reported if the constituency name is the same, but this may reflect a completely different basket of districts.

Sources: Winner 2009 data (first 3 columns): ECI website; Winner 2004 data from 14th Lok Sabha page; sometimes these MPs may have been elected in a later by-election. Margin is from [1].

• Mayawati (BSP); in the by-elections, the Akbarpur seat was lost to the BSP – it went to Shankhlal Majhi (SP),
• Mulayam Singh Yadav (SP), Mainpuri went to Dharmendra Yadav (SP), and
• Narendra Kushwaha (BSP), who was expelled for accepting bribes in the Operation Duryodhana scam – Mirzapur seat went to Ramesh Dubey (BSP)..

No.	Constituency	Turnout %	Winning Candidate	Party		Margin
1	Saharanpur	63.25	Jagdish Singh Rana		Bahujan Samaj Party	84,873
2	Kairana	56.59	Tabassum Begum		Bahujan Samaj Party	23,429
3	Muzaffarnagar	54.44	Kadir Rana		Bahujan Samaj Party	20,598
4	Bijnor	55.01	Sanjay Singh Chauhan		Rashtriya Lok Dal	18,142
5	Nagina (SC)	53.78	Yashvir Singh		Samajwadi Party	46,585
6	Moradabad	54.82	Mohammed Azharuddin		Indian National Congress	47,454
7	Rampur	52.50	Jaya Prada Nahata		Samajwadi Party	30,931
8	Sambhal	52.83	Shafiqur Rahman Barq		Bahujan Samaj Party	13,464
9	Amroha	60.20	Devendra Nagpal		Rashtriya Lok Dal	92,083
10	Meerut	48.23	Rajendra Agarwal		Bharatiya Janata Party	26,877
11	Baghpat	47.93	Ajit Singh		Rashtriya Lok Dal	63,027
12	Ghaziabad	45.30	Rajnath Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	90,681
13	Gautam Buddh Nagar	48.54	Surendra Singh Nagar		Bahujan Samaj Party	20,330
14	Bulandshahr (SC)	45.08	Kamlesh		Samajwadi Party	65,717
15	Aligarh	51.48	Raj Kumari Chauhan		Bahujan Samaj Party	9,145
16	Hathras (SC)	45.10	Sarika Singh		Rashtriya Lok Dal	36,833
17	Mathura	54.15	Jayant Chaudhary		Rashtriya Lok Dal	1,36,193
18	Agra (SC)	42.03	Dr. Ramshankar		Bharatiya Janata Party	17,270
19	Fatehpur Sikri	51.56	Seema Upadhyay		Bahujan Samaj Party	6,091
20	Firozabad	48.16	Raj Babbar		Indian National Congress	67,301
21	Mainpuri	49.67	Mulayam Singh Yadav		Samajwadi Party	1,64,604
22	Etah	44.46	Kalyan Singh R O Madholi		Independent	1,28,268
23	Badaun	52.46	Dharmendra Yadav		Samajwadi Party	32,542
24	Aonla	53.78	Menaka Gandhi		Bharatiya Janata Party	7,654
25	Bareilly	50.36	Praveen Singh Aron		Indian National Congress	9,338
26	Pilibhit	63.96	Varun Gandhi		Bharatiya Janata Party	2,81,501
27	Shahjahanpur (SC)	48.68	Mithlesh		Samajwadi Party	70,579
28	Kheri	54.59	Zafar Ali Naqvi		Indian National Congress	8,777
29	Dhaurahra	59.83	Kunwar Jitin Prasad		Indian National Congress	1,84,509
30	Sitapur	57.31	Kaisar Jahan		Bahujan Samaj Party	19,632
31	Hardoi	40.55	Usha Verma		Samajwadi Party	92,935
32	Misrikh (SC)	41.50	Ashok Kumar Rawat		Bahujan Samaj Party	23,292
33	Unnao	49.73	Annu Tandon		Indian National Congress	3,02,076
34	Mohanlalganj (SC)	46.32	Sushila Saroj		Samajwadi Party	76,595
35	Lucknow	35.33	Lalji Tandon		Bharatiya Janata Party	40,901
36	Rae Bareli	48.33	Sonia Gandhi		Indian National Congress	3,72,165
37	Amethi	45.16	Rahul Gandhi		Indian National Congress	3,31,910
38	Sultanpur	49.47	Sanjay Singh		Indian National Congress	98,779
39	Pratapgarh	44.66	Rajkumari Ratna Singh		Indian National Congress	17,619
40	Farrukhabad	46.78	Salman Khursheed		Indian National Congress	16,347
41	Etawah (SC)	45.04	Premdas		Samajwadi Party	44,711
42	Kannauj	49.32	Akhilesh Yadav		Samajwadi Party	1,15,864
43	Kanpur	36.90	Sri Prakash Jaiswal		Indian National Congress	18,906
44	Akbarpur	43.63	Rajaram Pal		Indian National Congress	32,043
45	Jalaun (SC)	47.34	Ghansyam Anuragi		Samajwadi Party	3,607
46	Jhansi	55.17	Pradeep Jain Aditya		Indian National Congress	47,670
47	Hamirpur	48.40	Vijay Bahadur Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party	25,893
48	Banda	44.71	R. K. Singh Patel		Samajwadi Party	34,593
49	Fatehpur	45.19	Rakesh Sachan		Samajwadi Party	52,228
50	Kaushambi (SC)	39.63	Shailendra Kumar		Samajwadi Party	28,288
51	Phulpur	38.71	Kapil Muni Karwariya		Bahujan Samaj Party	14,578
52	Allahabad	43.41	Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh		Samajwadi Party	34,920
53	Barabanki (SC)	52.28	P.L.Punia		Indian National Congress	1,67,913
54	Faizabad	49.94	Nirmal Khatri		Indian National Congress	54,228
55	Ambedkar Nagar	54.29	Rakesh Pandey		Bahujan Samaj Party	10,124
56	Bahraich (SC)	41.12	Kamal Kishor		Indian National Congress	38,953
57	Kaiserganj	41.10	Brijbhushan Sharan Singh		Samajwadi Party	45,974
58	Shrawasti	43.06	Vinay Kumar alias Vinnu		Indian National Congress	42,029
59	Gonda	45.18	Beni Prasad Verma		Indian National Congress	23,675
60	Domariyaganj	49.21	Jagdambika Pal		Indian National Congress	46,871
61	Basti	49.26	Arvind Kumar Chaudhary		Bahujan Samaj Party	1,05,210
62	Sant Kabir Nagar	47.29	Bhisma Shankar		Bahujan Samaj Party	25,846
63	Maharajganj	55.63	Harsh Vardhan		Indian National Congress	1,23,628
64	Gorakhpur	44.27	Yogi Adityanath		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,42,433
65	Kushi Nagar	50.84	Ratanjeet Pratap Narayan Singh		Indian National Congress	19,153
66	Deoria	45.40	Gorakh Prasad Jaiswal		Bahujan Samaj Party	28,160
67	Bansgaon (SC)	39.07	Kamlesh Paswan		Bharatiya Janata Party	42,239
68	Lalganj (SC)	43.62	Dr. Baliram		Bahujan Samaj Party	39,948
69	Azamgarh	44.64	Ramakant Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party	48,494
70	Ghosi	45.23	Dara Singh Chauhan		Bahujan Samaj Party	42,990
71	Salempur	39.28	Ramashankar Rajbhar		Bahujan Samaj Party	28,645
72	Ballia	40.37	Neeraj Shekhar		Samajwadi Party	72,429
73	Jaunpur	45.97	Dhananjay Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party	80,351
74	Machhlishahr (SC)	41.00	Tufani Saroj		Samajwadi Party	29,019
75	Ghazipur	50.43	Radhey Mohan Singh		Samajwadi Party	69,260
76	Chandauli	46.41	Ramkishun		Samajwadi Party	2,387
77	Varanasi	42.61	Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi		Bharatiya Janata Party	17,211
78	Bhadohi	43.39	Gorakhnath		Bahujan Samaj Party	12,963
79	Mirzapur	52.18	Bal Kumar Patel		Samajwadi Party	21,504
80	Robertsganj (SC)	49.30	Pakauri Lal		Samajwadi Party	50,259

Region-wise Results

Region	Total seats	Samajwadi Party		Indian National Congress		Bahujan Samaj Party		Bharatiya Janata Party		Others
Bundelkhand	4	2	02	1	01	1	01	0		0
Central Uttar Pradesh	24	7	02	12	06	4	03	1		0
North-East Uttar Pradesh	17	2	03	6	03	6	04	3		0
Rohilkhand	10	4	02	2	02	1	01	2		1
South-East Uttar Pradesh	8	5	02	0		2	02	1		0
West Uttar Pradesh	17	3	01	0		6	04	3		5
Total	80	23	12	21	12	20	1	10		6

External links

• Election Commission of India
• Information About Uttar Pradesh Elections