The Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, is currently held by the BJP’s Sanjeev Balyan who won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating BSP's Kadir Rana with a margin of over 4 lakh votes.

Balyan, a former Union Minister, will again contest from the seat as BJP candidate and will face RLD chief Chaudhary Ajit Singh who is contesting as the Mahagathbandhan's joint candidate. 

The Congress has not fielded any candidate in Muzaffarnagar as part of its announcement that it would not contest seven seats in the state. Shivpal Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia (PSP-L) has fielded Ombir Singh from the constituency.

While the 2014 election was held in the backdrop of riots in the district which had heavily polarised the area, Ajit Singh's party has tried to amend the tied between Hindus and Muslims in the region known for its kisan politics. One of the issues that are dominating the electoral battle in 2019 is unpaid dues of sugarcane. 

Thousands of sugarcane farmers in Western UP, which produces over 50 per cent of the country's total sugarcane produce are awaiting payments of over Rs 9,000 crore from sugar mills pending for over a year. The issue of attacks by stray cattle is also leading to huge losses, farmers in the area say.

In 2009, Kadir Rana of the BSP had successfully won the seat by defeating Anuradha Chaudhary of the RLD. In 2004 General Elections, Ch. Munawwar Hasan of the Samajwadi Party had defeated Amarpal Singh of the BJP. 

The Parliamentary constituency comprises five legislative assembly segments - Budhana, Charthawal, Muzaffarnagar, Khatauli and Sardhana. 

UP is facing a three-pronged 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 (Raebareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi). 

The polling in Muzaffarnagar will be held in first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 11. The results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be declared on May 23.