Results of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections are being announced today and the counting of votes has started. In Uttar Pradesh, eyes will be on Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat as Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav is contesting from here.
As of 8:30 am, the SP-BSP alliance was leading in 7 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress in 4 seats while the BJP was leading in 16 seats.
Mainpuri has been a stronghold of the Samajwadi party in Uttar Pradesh. In 2014, this was one of the two seats from where Mulyam Singh Yadav contested the Lok Sabha polls.
In 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati have joined hands to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party.
India Today-Axis My India exit poll had predicted that Mulayam Singh Yadav is facing a tough battle in Mainpuri, despite it being a Samajwadi party bastion.
The Congress is not part of the SP-BSP alliance. The alliance has however decided not to field any candidate from Amethi and Rae Bareli, the Lok Sabha constituencies of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Uttar Pradesh is an important state because it sends the most number of seats to the Lok Sabha. There are 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election the BJP-led NDA won 73 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi Party could win only five seats and two seats were won by the Congress.
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