Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency: Candidates for 2019 LS poll\, past results\, all updates



Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency: Candidates for 2019 LS poll, past results, all updates

Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency


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VK Singh (PTI Photo)

Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and is considered a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bastion. In 2014, VK Singh, a former Army General, had defeated Congress' Raj Babbar by 5.67 lakh votes, one of the highest victory margins in the country. 

The Parliamentary constituency was created in 2008 on the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission and has been with the BJP for two terms. 

Rajnath Singh won from here in 2009 and VK Singh won with the second-highest margin in the country in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. VK Singh has been renominated by his party and will face Congress' Dolly Sharma and SP-BSP-RLD alliance's Suresh Bansal who is contesting on a Samajwadi Party ticket.

The Parliamentary constituency comprises mostly urban areas and is formed of five legislative assembly segments - Ghaziabad, Muradnagar, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad in Ghaziabad district and Dholana in Hapur district. 

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 Ghaziabad 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.