Lucknow Parliamentary Constituency Map and Election Results

General Election Candidate List 2019
Party	Constituency	Candidate Name
SP	Lucknow	Poonam Sinha
INC	Lucknow	Acharya Pramod Krishnam
BJP	Lucknow	Rajnath Singh

Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Election 2019 Dates

Lucknow General Election 2014 Results Analysis

The Congress candidate fielded from the historic seat of Lucknow, Rita Joshi, was confident of winning the election of 2014. Her reasoning ran this: She was a local candidate who the people knew well, whereas Rajnath Singh was an outsider whose only claim to fame was jumping constituencies every now and then. Now, however, Joshi is having to eat the humble pie. Rajnath Singh, the BJP president, has not only won from the Lucknow seat, but has done so by the highest-ever margin. In a contest that many thought would be close, Singh has scored a victory by over 2.72 lakh votes. In total, he received about 5.61 lakh votes while Rita Joshi had to be content with 2.88 lakh votes.

It's interesting to note the pattern and forces that helped this landslide victory.

What helped Rajnath Singh win from Lucknow

The two most important factors that resulted in this BJP victory were th pro-Modi and anti-Congress sentiment. Uttar Pradesh received special attention of the BJP, and the result has been a rout on 73 of the 80 seats. While there's no doubt that Joshi enjoys popularity as a local candidate, this time the issues of development and good governance were predominant in people's mind. Moreover, the scam-ridden Congress government had little chance of appeasing the voter.

A more subtle factor, however, lies in Lucknow's history. This was the constituency from where Atal Bihari Vajpayee was elected MP in 1998. Vajpayee has been the most popular BJP Prime Minister, and at a time when development and strong governance are critical, the memories of those days must have played an important role. It is worth mentioning that Singh managed to surpass Vajpayee's record also in term of victory margin.

Finally, the Aam Aadmi Party's experiment in the form of Javed Jaffery failed miserably. People could not connect to him as a political leader, and as a result he had to contend with merely 41,000 votes.

Lucknow General Election Result 2014

Candidate	Party	Votes
Raj Nath Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	561106
Prof. Rita Bahuguna Joshi	Indian National Congress	288357
Nakul Dubey	Bahujan Samaj Party	64449
Abhishek Misra	Samajwadi Party	56771
Syed Javed Ahmed Jafri	Aam Aadmi Party	41429
Suman Verma	Bhartiya Shakti Chetna Party	1901
Mohd. Sarwar Malik	All India Trinamool Congress	1486
Sanjeev Mehrotra Alias Pikku Bhai	Bahujan Kranti Party (Marxwad-Ambedkarwad)	1174
Syed Ali Husain	Independent	1100
Asok Pande	Independent	930
Shishu Pal Yadav	Rashtriya Viklang Party	851
Sunil Singh	Lok Dal	849
Tara Patkar	Swarajya Party Of India	743
Subhash Chandra Lehri	Independent	719
Hari Ram Alias Haribhai Patel	Samyak Parivartan Party	694
Padam Chandra Gupta	Independent	661
Shailendra Singh Yadav	Independent	607
Vijay Bahadur Singh	Manavtawadi Samaj Party	575
Manoj Singh	Independent	572
Radha Krishnan	Uttar Pradesh Republican Party	542
Raj Kumar Singh	National Youth Party	523
Ramphal Rawat	Bharatiya Nav Kranti Party	502
Nand Kumar Lodhi Rajpoot	Rashtriya Krantikari Samajwadi Party	445
Vinay Prakash Mishra	Independent	441
Rajeev Ranjan Tiwari Alias Raj Behari	Independent	391
Adarsh Shastri	Independent	389
Rabi Dubey	Nagrik Ekta Party	361
Yogesh Chandra Bhatt	Independent	337
Ghanshyam Singh	Independent	282
None of the Above	None of the Above	4596

Lucknow Parliamentary Constituency (Lok Sabha) Results

List of Winning MP and Runner up from 1957 to till date from Lucknow Lok Sabha Constituency