# 2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

The 2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh were held for 80 seats with the state going to polls across all the five phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Indian National Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Fourth Front. NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal whereas the fourth front was constituted of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).
After counting on 16 May 2009, to everyone's surprise, national parties, Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, did extremely well, while regional parties, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, did worse than expected. The results showed a split between SP, BSP and INC, leading each of them winning a fair share of seats in the state. The campaigning by Rahul Gandhi proved to be very effective and his decision for Indian National Congress, to go alone in Uttar Pradesh, worked in their favour, since they ended up picking up 21 seats.
After the election, the success of the Bharatiya Janata Party, according to UP BJP leader was, the split of the Muslim votes away from SP to Congress, due to Kalyan Singh supporting the SP and the division of Dalit votes between BSP and Congress, led to success for BJP and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal. This split also benefited Congress, since they were able bag many seats, that are usually won by either SP or BSP.

## Voting and results

Source: Election Commission of India

### Results by alliance

| UPA | SEATS | NDA | SEATS | TF+ | SEATS | Fourth Front | SEATS | Others | SEATS |
| INC | 21 | BJP | 10 | BSP | 20 | SP | 23 | IND | 1 |
| | | RLD | 5 | | | | |
| TOTAL (2009) | 21 | TOTAL (2009) | 15 | TOTAL (2009) | 20 | TOTAL (2009) | 23 | TOTAL (2009) | 1 |
| TOTAL (2004) | 9 | TOTAL (2004) | 11 | TOTAL (2004) | 19* | TOTAL (2004) | 35* | TOTAL (2004) | 6 |
* Since the Third and Fourth front did not exist in 2004, the results in 2004 represents seats won by BSP in Third Front and SP in Fourth Front.

### List of elected MPs

Note that almost all the constituencies here were seriously overhauled after the delimitation commission. Hence the results for 2009 reflect a different demographic distribution. The winner from 2004 has been reported if the constituency name is the same, but this may reflect a completely different basket of districts.
Sources: Winner 2009 data (first 3 columns): ECI website; Winner 2004 data from 14th Lok Sabha page; sometimes these MPs may have been elected in a later by-election. Margin is from .
* Mayawati (BSP); in the by-elections, the Akbarpur seat was lost to the BSP – it went to Shankhlal Majhi (SP),
* Mulayam Singh Yadav (SP), Mainpuri went to Dharmendra Yadav (SP), and
* Narendra Kushwaha (BSP), who was expelled for accepting bribes in the Operation Duryodhana scam – Mirzapur seat went to Ramesh Dube (BSP)..
| No. | Constituency | Turnout % | Winning Candidate | Party | Margin |
| 1 | Saharanpur | 63.25 | Jagdish Singh Rana | Bahujan Samaj Party | 84,873 |
| 2 | Kairana | 56.59 | Tabassum Begum | Bahujan Samaj Party | 23,429 |
| 3 | Muzaffarnagar | 54.44 | Kadir Rana | Bahujan Samaj Party | 20,598 |
| 4 | Bijnor | 55.01 | Sanjay Singh Chauhan | Rashtriya Lok Dal | 18,142 |
| 5 | Nagina (SC) | 53.78 | Yashvir Singh | Samajwadi Party | 46,585 |
| 6 | Moradabad | 54.82 | Mohammed Azharuddin | Indian National Congress | 47,454 |
| 7 | Rampur | 52.50 | Jaya Prada Nahata | Samajwadi Party | 30,931 |
| 8 | Sambhal | 52.83 | Shafiqur Rahman Barq | Bahujan Samaj Party | 13,464 |
| 9 | Amroha | 60.20 | Devendra Nagpal | Rashtriya Lok Dal | 92,083 |
| 10 | Meerut | 48.23 | Rajendra Agrawal | Bharatiya Janata Party | 26,877 |
| 11 | Baghpat | 47.93 | Ajit Singh | Rashtriya Lok Dal | 63,027 |
| 12 | Ghaziabad | 45.30 | Rajnath Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 90,681 |
| 13 | Gautam Buddh Nagar | 48.54 | Surendra Singh Nagar | Bahujan Samaj Party | 20,330 |
| 14 | Bulandshahr (SC) | 45.08 | Kamlesh | Samajwadi Party | 65,717 |
| 15 | Aligarh | 51.48 | Raj Kumari Chauhan | Bahujan Samaj Party | 9,145 |
| 16 | Hathras (SC) | 45.10 | Sarika Singh | Rashtriya Lok Dal | 36,833 |
| 17 | Mathura | 54.15 | Jayant Chaudhary | Rashtriya Lok Dal | 1,36,193 |
| 18 | Agra (SC) | 42.03 | Ram Shankar Katheria | Bharatiya Janata Party | 17,270 |
| 19 | Fatehpur Sikri | 51.56 | Seema Upadhyay | Bahujan Samaj Party | 6,091 |
| 20 | Firozabad | 48.16 | Raj Babbar | Indian National Congress | 67,301 |
| 21 | Mainpuri | 49.67 | Mulayam Singh Yadav | Samajwadi Party | 1,64,604 |
| 22 | Etah | 44.46 | Kalyan Singh | Independent | 1,28,268 |
| 23 | Badaun | 52.46 | Dharmendra Yadav | Samajwadi Party | 32,542 |
| 24 | Aonla | 53.78 | Menaka Gandhi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 7,654 |
| 25 | Bareilly | 50.36 | Praveen Singh Aron | Indian National Congress | 9,338 |
| 26 | Pilibhit | 63.96 | Varun Gandhi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 2,81,501 |
| 27 | Shahjahanpur (SC) | 48.68 | Mithlesh Kumar | Samajwadi Party | 70,579 |
| 28 | Kheri | 54.59 | Zafar Ali Naqvi | Indian National Congress | 8,777 |
| 29 | Dhaurahra | 59.83 | Kunwar Jitin Prasad | Indian National Congress | 1,84,509 |
| 30 | Sitapur | 57.31 | Kaisar Jahan | Bahujan Samaj Party | 19,632 |
| 31 | Hardoi | 40.55 | Usha Verma | Samajwadi Party | 92,935 |
| 32 | Misrikh (SC) | 41.50 | Ashok Kumar Rawat | Bahujan Samaj Party | 23,292 |
| 33 | Unnao | 49.73 | Annu Tandon | Indian National Congress | 3,02,076 |
| 34 | Mohanlalganj (SC) | 46.32 | Sushila Saroj | Samajwadi Party | 76,595 |
| 35 | Lucknow | 35.33 | Lalji Tandon | Bharatiya Janata Party | 40,901 |
| 36 | Rae Bareli | 48.33 | Sonia Gandhi | Indian National Congress | 3,72,165 |
| 37 | Amethi | 45.16 | Rahul Gandhi | Indian National Congress | 3,31,910 |
| 38 | Sultanpur | 49.47 | Sanjay Singh | Indian National Congress | 98,779 |
| 39 | Pratapgarh | 44.66 | Rajkumari Ratna Singh | Indian National Congress | 17,619 |
| 40 | Farrukhabad | 46.78 | Salman Khursheed | Indian National Congress | 16,347 |
| 41 | Etawah (SC) | 45.04 | Premdas Katheria | Samajwadi Party | 44,711 |
| 42 | Kannauj | 49.32 | Akhilesh Yadav | Samajwadi Party | 1,15,864 |
| 43 | Kanpur | 36.90 | Sriprakash Jaiswal | Indian National Congress | 18,906 |
| 44 | Akbarpur | 43.63 | Raja Ram Pal | Indian National Congress | 32,043 |
| 45 | Jalaun (SC) | 47.34 | Ghanshyam Anuragi | Samajwadi Party | 3,607 |
| 46 | Jhansi | 55.17 | Pradeep Jain Aditya | Indian National Congress | 47,670 |
| 47 | Hamirpur | 48.40 | Vijay Bahadur Singh | Bahujan Samaj Party | 25,893 |
| 48 | Banda | 44.71 | R. K. Singh Patel | Samajwadi Party | 34,593 |
| 49 | Fatehpur | 45.19 | Rakesh Sachan | Samajwadi Party | 52,228 |
| 50 | Kaushambi (SC) | 39.63 | Shailendra Kumar | Samajwadi Party | 28,288 |
| 51 | Phulpur | 38.71 | Kapil Muni Karwariya | Bahujan Samaj Party | 14,578 |
| 52 | Allahabad | 43.41 | Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh | Samajwadi Party | 34,920 |
| 53 | Barabanki (SC) | 52.28 | PL Punia | Indian National Congress | 1,67,913 |
| 54 | Faizabad | 49.94 | Nirmal Khatri | Indian National Congress | 54,228 |
| 55 | Ambedkar Nagar | 54.29 | Rakesh Pandey | Bahujan Samaj Party | 10,124 |
| 56 | Bahraich (SC) | 41.12 | Kamal Kishor | Indian National Congress | 38,953 |
| 57 | Kaiserganj | 41.10 | Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh | Samajwadi Party | 45,974 |
| 58 | Shrawasti | 43.06 | Vinay Kumar Pandey | Indian National Congress | 42,029 |
| 59 | Gonda | 45.18 | Beni Prasad Verma | Indian National Congress | 23,675 |
| 60 | Domariyaganj | 49.21 | Jagdambika Pal | Indian National Congress | 46,871 |
| 61 | Basti | 49.26 | Arvind Kumar Chaudhary | Bahujan Samaj Party | 1,05,210 |
| 62 | Sant Kabir Nagar | 47.29 | Bhishma Shankar Tiwari | Bahujan Samaj Party | 25,846 |
| 63 | Maharajganj | 55.63 | Harsh Vardhan | Indian National Congress | 1,23,628 |
| 64 | Gorakhpur | 44.27 | Yogi Adityanath | Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,42,433 |
| 65 | Kushi Nagar | 50.84 | Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh | Indian National Congress | 19,153 |
| 66 | Deoria | 45.40 | Gorakh Prasad Jaiswal | Bahujan Samaj Party | 28,160 |
| 67 | Bansgaon (SC) | 39.07 | Kamlesh Paswan | Bharatiya Janata Party | 42,239 |
| 68 | Lalganj (SC) | 43.62 | Bali Ram | Bahujan Samaj Party | 39,948 |
| 69 | Azamgarh | 44.64 | Ramakant Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | 48,494 |
| 70 | Ghosi | 45.23 | Dara Singh Chauhan | Bahujan Samaj Party | 42,990 |
| 71 | Salempur | 39.28 | Ramashankar Rajbhar | Bahujan Samaj Party | 28,645 |
| 72 | Ballia | 40.37 | Neeraj Shekhar | Samajwadi Party | 72,429 |
| 73 | Jaunpur | 45.97 | Dhananjay Singh | Bahujan Samaj Party | 80,351 |
| 74 | Machhlishahr (SC) | 41.00 | Tufani Saroj | Samajwadi Party | 29,019 |
| 75 | Ghazipur | 50.43 | Radhey Mohan Singh | Samajwadi Party | 69,260 |
| 76 | Chandauli | 46.41 | Ramkishun | Samajwadi Party | 2,387 |
| 77 | Varanasi | 42.61 | Murli Manohar Joshi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 17,211 |
| 78 | Bhadohi | 43.39 | Gorakh Nath Pandey | Bahujan Samaj Party | 12,963 |
| 79 | Mirzapur | 52.18 | Bal Kumar Patel | Samajwadi Party | 21,504 |
| 80 | Robertsganj (SC) | 49.30 | Pakauri Lal | Samajwadi Party | 50,259 |