Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, is currently held by the BJP’s Satyapal Singh Saini who won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating SP's Shafiqur Rahman Barq with a margin of just 5,000 votes.

This time, however, the BJP dropped sitting MP from Sambhal and replaced him with Parmeshwar Lal Saini. 

The Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded Barq, a four-time Lok Sabha MP - three terms from Moradabad and one from Sambhal - to face BJP's Saini. 

Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency is a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party and has been represented by party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav twice and his brother Ram Gopal Yadav once. However, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) snatched away the seat from SP in 2009 when it fielded Barq to face Iqbal Mehmood of the SP. 

Now Barq, an influential Muslim leader in the region, is back with SP and is facing Parmeshwar Lal Saini of the BJP. With close to 50% Muslim population and over 20% SC votes, the SP-BSP-RLD alliance is looking to win the seat back from the BJP. 

The Parliamentary constituency comprises five legislative assembly segments - Kundarki, Bilari, Chandausi, Asmoli and Sambhal.

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 for the third phase is to be held on April 23 for ten Lok Sabha seats in the Rohilkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. The results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be declared on May 23.