2024 Lok Sabha Election Results: Samajwadi Party Steals India’s Major Advance in Uttar Pradesh, Holding Off BJP
New Delhi: In Uttar Pradesh, a politically significant state that sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha—more than any other state—the opposition INDIA group is being led by the Samajwadi Party.
The SP had secured 29 seats by 9.30 pm and was leading in eight more, making a total of 37, its highest result from UP Lok Sabha election ever. The previous high was 36 in 2004, the year the UPA led by Congress won.
Additionally, Mr. Yadav has virtually assured himself of victory in the Kannuaj stronghold; as of 9 p.m., he led the BJP’s Subrat Pathak by 1.7 lakh votes. Dimple Yadav, his spouse.
BJP Had Secured 28 Seats And Led Five More
In the meantime, the BJP had secured 28 seats and led five more, with its ally the Apne Dal (Sonelal) securing one seat. One had also been won by the Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of Varanasi and Kaiserganj’s Karan Bhushan Singh, the son of suspected sex assaulter Brij Bhushan Singh, were two of the seats the BJP won. The Samajwadi Party only managed five seats in the previous Lok Sabha election, in which the BJP won 62 of the state’s 80 seats and its ally the Apna Dal (Sonelal) won two more.
In the meantime, the Congress had secured six seats, including the BJP’s Smriti Irani and the BSP’s Thakur Prasad Yadav, as well as the strongholds of Amethi and Raebareli, where Kishori Lal and Rahul Gandhi triumphed.
The Congress won Amethi with around 1.7 lakh votes, which made headlines. It not only regained the seat that had been held by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi from 1981 (a by-election held following the death of his mother and predecessor, Indira Gandhi) until 1991 (when he was tragically slain as well), but it also dealt a crushing blow to the BJP and Union Minister Smriti Irani.
Samajwadi Party’s Outstanding Performance
In the most recent national or state polls, the Congress and the BSP were unable to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, but today the SP succeeded where they failed. Still, this is by no means an unexpected outcome.
With 255 of the state’s 417 seats, the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, emerged victorious in the 2022 Assembly election. The SP, which garnered 111 seats, was the closest opponent, nonetheless.
At that time, Mr. Yadav’s party had gained a whopping 64 seats more than it had five years prior. This was largely due to the farmers’ protests that upended the BJP’s “double-engine government.”
It appears that the wave of support continued into this election.
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