2014 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh explained

The 2014 Indian general election polls in Uttar Pradesh for 80 Lok Sabha seats was held in six phases on 10, 17, 24, 30 April and 7, 12 May 2014.^[1] The total voter strength of Uttar Pradesh was 134,351,297.^[2]

The main political parties in Uttar Pradesh are Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC) and Samajwadi party (SP). BJP allied with Apna Dal and INC allied with Rashtriya Lok Dal and Mahan Dal.^{[3] [4]}

Opinion polling

Conducted in Month(s)	Ref	Polling Organisation/Agency	Sample size	bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=
				UPA	NDA	SP	BSP	Others
Aug–Oct 2013	[5]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	24,284	7	17	25	31	0
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014	[6]	India Today-CVoter	21,792	4	30	20	24	2
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014	[7]	ABP News-Nielsen	64,006	12	35	14	15	4
Jan–Feb 2014	[8]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	14,000	5	34	20	21	0
Feb 2014	[9]	ABP News-Nielsen	29,000	11	40	13	14	2
March 2014	[10]	NDTV- Hansa Research	46,571	12	40	13	15	0
March–April 2014	[11]	CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS	2633	4 – 8	42 – 50	11–17	10–16	0–2
30 March – 3 April 2014	[12]	India Today-Cicero	1498	6 – 10	42 – 50	15–21	9–13	0–2
April 2014	[13]	NDTV- Hansa Research	24,000	5	51	14	10	9

Election schedule

Constituency wise Election schedule are given below^[1] -

Polling Day	Phase	Date	Constituencies	Voting Percentage
1	3	10 April	Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahr, Aligarh	65[14]
2	5	17 April	Nagina, Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Amroha, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Kheri	62[15]
3	6	24 April		60.12[16]
4	7	30 April		57[17]
5	8	7 May	Amethi, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Phulpur, Allahabad, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Kaiserganj, Shrawasti, Gonda, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Bhadohi	55.5[18]
6	9	12 May		55.3[19]

Results

The BJP won 71 seats, a monumental increase from the 10 seats it won in LS 2009 elections. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) which formed government in UP for four times did not win a single seat in this general elections.^[20]

71	2	5	2
BJP	Apna Dal	SP	INC

Alliance/Party	Seats			Popular vote			2nd Position	3rd Position
Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%	±pp
NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	78	71	61	3,43,18,854	42.63	24.80	7	0
	Apna Dal	2	2	2	8,12,315	1.0		0	0
-	-			78	5	18	1,79,88,967	22.20	1.06	31	30
-	-			80	0	20	1,59,14,194	19.60	7.82	34	42
UPA		Indian National Congress	66	2	19	60,61,267	7.50	10.75	6	5
		8	0	5	6,89,409	0.86	2.4	1	1

Constituency Wise Results

Keys:

No.	Constituency	Turnout %	Winner	Party		Votes	Runner Up	Party		Votes	Margin
1		74.26			Bharatiya Janata Party				Indian National Congress		65,090
2		73.10			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		2,36,628
3		69.74			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		4,01,150
4		67.88			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		2,05,774
5	Nagina (SC)	63.12			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		92,390
6		63.66			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		87,504
7		59.27			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		23,435
8		62.43			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		5,174
9		70.97			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		1,58,214
10		63.12			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,32,326
11		66.75			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		2,09,866
12		56.94	Vijay Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party				Indian National Congress		5,67,260
13		60.39	Mahesh Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		2,80,212
14	Bulandshahr (SC)	58.18			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		4,21,973
15		59.38			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,86,736
16	Hathras (SC)	59.66			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		3,26,386
17		64.10			Bharatiya Janata Party				Rashtriya Lok Dal		3,30,743
18	Agra (SC)	58.98			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		3,00,263
19		61.26			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,73,106
20		67.49	Akshay Yadav		Samajwadi Party				Bharatiya Janata Party		1,14,059
21		60.46			Samajwadi Party				Bharatiya Janata Party		3,64,666
22		58.72			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		2,01,001
23		58.09			Samajwadi Party				Bharatiya Janata Party		1,66,347
24		60.22			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		1,38,429
25		61.18			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		2,40,685
26		62.86			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		3,07,052
27	Shahjahanpur (SC)	57.12			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,35,529
28		64.18			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,10,274
29		68.05			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,25,675
30		66.25			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		51,027
31	Hardoi (SC)	56.75	Anshul Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		81,343
32	Misrikh (SC)	57.85			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		87,363
33		55.53			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		3,10,173
34	Mohanlalganj (SC)	60.75			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,45,416
35		53.06			Bharatiya Janata Party				Indian National Congress		2,72,749
36	Rae Bareli	51.73			Indian National Congress				Bharatiya Janata Party		3,52,713
37		52.39			Indian National Congress				Bharatiya Janata Party		1,07,903
38		56.66	Feroze Varun Gandhi		Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,78,902
39		52.12			Apna Dal				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,68,222
40		60.15			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		1,50,502
41	Etawah (SC)	55.05			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		1,72,946
42		61.62	Dimple Yadav		Samajwadi Party				Bharatiya Janata Party		19,907
43		51.83			Bharatiya Janata Party				Indian National Congress		2,22,946
44		54.93			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,78,997
45	Jalaun (SC)	58.78			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,87,202
46		68.37			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		1,90,467
47		56.27			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		2,66,788
48		53.61			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,15,788
49		58.58			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,87,206
50	Kaushambi (SC)	52.37			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		42,900
51		50.20			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		3,08,308
52		53.50			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		62,009
53	Barabanki (SC)	62.06			Bharatiya Janata Party				Indian National Congress		2,11,878
54		58.82			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		2,82,775
55		60.18			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,39,429
56	Bahraich (SC)	57.02			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		95,645
57		55.11	Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		78,218
58		54.82			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		85,913
59		51.08			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		1,60,416
60		53.08	Jagdambika Pal		Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,03,588
61		58.66			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		33,562
62		53.15			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		97,978
63		60.82			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,40,458
64		54.67			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		3,12,783
65		56.56			Bharatiya Janata Party				Indian National Congress		85,540
66		53.80			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,65,386
67	Bansgaon (SC)	49.88			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,89,516
68	Lalganj (SC)	54.14			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		63,086
69		56.40			Samajwadi Party				Bharatiya Janata Party		63,204
70		54.99			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,46,015
71		51.50			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,32,342
72		53.29			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		1,39,434
73		54.48			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,46,310
74	Machhlishahr (SC)	52.74			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,72,155
75		54.77			Bharatiya Janata Party				Samajwadi Party		32,452
76	Chandauli	61.56	Mahendra Nath Pandey		Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,56,756
77		58.35			Bharatiya Janata Party				Aam Aadmi Party		3,71,784
78		53.54			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,58,039
79		58.56			Apna Dal				Bahujan Samaj Party		2,19,079
80	Robertsganj (SC)	54.05			Bharatiya Janata Party				Bahujan Samaj Party		1,90,486

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2017 election)
	Bharatiya Janata Party	328	312
		9	19
		42	47
	Apna Dal (Sonelal)	9	9
	Indian National Congress	15	7
	Others	0	9
Total		403

Region-wise Results

Region	Total seats	Bharatiya Janata Party		Samajwadi Party		Indian National Congress		Bahujan Samaj Party		Others
Bundelkhand	4	4	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	0
Central Uttar Pradesh	24	20	19	1	6	2	10	0	4	1
North-East Uttar Pradesh	17	16	13	1	1	0	6	0	6	0
Rohilkhand	10	9	7	1	3	0	2	0	1	0
South-East Uttar Pradesh	8	7	6	0	5	0		0	2	1
West Uttar Pradesh	17	15	12	2	1	0		0	6	0
Total	80	71	61	5	18	2	19	0	20	2

Notes and References

1. Web site: General Elections – 2014 : Schedule of Elections. 5 March 2014 . 5 March 2014.
2. Web site: Election 2017, Election Result, Candidate List, Elections News - NDTV Election.
3. News: Apna Dal allies with NDA . The Hindu . 25 March 2014 . 26 March 2014.
4. News: Cong to leave 8 seats for RLD, 3 for Mahan Dal in western UP . The Indian Express. 9 March 2014 . 17 April 2014.
5. Web site: Congress 102, BJP 162; UPA 117, NDA 186: C-Voter Poll . Outlook . 17 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131016180408/http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10&pid=3061&eid=31 . 16 October 2013 . dead.
6. Web site: NDA may win over 200 seats as Modi's popularity soars further: India Today Mood of the Nation opinion poll : North, News . India Today . 23 January 2013.
7. Web site: ABP News nationwide opinion poll: UPA leading in south India, NDA in east. ABP NEWS. 25 January 2014. YouTube.
8. Web site: India TV C voter projection big gains for BJP .
9. Web site: ABP News – Nielsen Opinion Poll BJP sweep in UP-SP-BSP hit .
10. Web site: The Final Word – India's biggest opinion poll . NDTV . 14 March 2014. 14 March 2014.
11. News: UP tracker: BJP may win 42–50 seats, SP 11–17, BSP 10–16, Cong-RLD 4–8 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140406024142/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/up-tracker-bjp-may-win-4250-seats-sp-1117-bsp-1016-congrld-48/462361-81.html . dead . 6 April 2014 . CNN-IBN . 3 April 2014 . 4 April 2014.
12. News: Modi wave to take 42–50 seats in UP; 20–24 in Bihar: India Today Group-Cicero poll . India Today . 11 April 2014 . 13 April 2014.
13. Web site: The Final Word – India's biggest opinion poll . NDTV . 14 April 2014. 15 April 2014.
14. News: Lok Sabha Election 2014: Third phase polling sees high voter turnout . India Today . 10 April 2014 . 23 April 2014.
15. News: UP records over 62 per cent voter turnout . India Today . PTI . 17 April 2014 . 23 April 2014.
16. News: Ashish . Tripathi . High voter turnout may spell bad news for Samajwadi Party in UP . The Times of India. 25 April 2014 . 25 April 2014.
17. http://news.oneindia.in/india/updates-7th-phase-of-lok-sabha-election-2014-april30-lse-1438841.html 7th phase: 73% voter turnout in Punjab, 60% in Bihar
18. News: Lok Sabha polls: 56 pc polling in UP, booth trouble for Gandhis . India Today . 7 May 2014 . 7 May 2014.
19. News: High voter turnout in last lap of Lok Sabha elections; West Bengal notches up 80%. The Financial Express. 12 May 2014.
20. Web site: Akhilesh Yadav in the family business. Dixit. Neha. The Caravan. en. 2019-05-22.