2024 Lok Sabha Election Result LIVE: Samajwadi Party Leads INDIA's Big Charge In UP, Keeps BJP At Bay

 

In the 2019 election the BJP got 62 of Uttar Pradesh's 80 seats and its ally, the Apna Dal (Sonelal) picked up another two, while the Samajwadi Party managed only five and the Congress got just two.

New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party is leading the opposition INDIA bloc's charge in Uttar Pradesh - a politically key state that sends 80 MPs (the most of any state) to the Lok Sabha.

At 3 pm the SP was leading In 35 seats and the BJP in 34. The Samajwadi Party's best-ever performance in a UP Lok Sabha election was 36 in 2004 - when the Congress-led UPA won.

Also, Mr Yadav has all but claimed victory for himself from the family bastion of Kannuaj; at 3 pm he had a lead of nearly 3.5 lakh votes over Imran Bin Zafar from ex-Chief Minister Mayawati's BSP.

The BJP's Subrat Pathak is the filling in the electoral sandwich; he is over one lakh votes behind.

In the last Lok Sabha election - in which the BJP got 62 of the state's 80 seats and its ally, the Apna Dal (Sonelal) picked up another two - the Samajwadi Party managed a return of only five.The party got just five seats in the 2014 election too, down from 23 in the 2009 poll.