Pratapgarh Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 Live Updates: With the counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections underway, the results for one of the biggest elections in the world are finally being declared.
Over seven thousand candidates are in the electoral fray to gain the mandate of over 900 million eligible voters across 543 constituencies spread across 28 states and 9 union territories. The voting for these parliamentary elections were held in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June 2024. Now, it is time for the results.
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Live Updates of Pratapgarh Lok Sabha Election Results 2024
The polling for Pratapgarh was held in Phase 6 on 25 May.
The key candidates for the 2024 General Elections in Pratapgarh are Sangam Lal Gupta (BJP) and Shiv Pal Singh Patel (Dr. S P Singh)(SP).
As per the latest trends of counting of votes for 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party's Shiv Pal Singh Patel has won Pratapgarh seat.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Pratapgarh seat was won by BJP candidate Sangam Lal Gupta, while BSP candidate Ashok Tripathi had come in second place.
In 2014's General Elections, Pratapgarh constituency was won by Apna Dal candidate Kuwar Harivansh Singh and BSP candidate Asif Nizamuddin Siddique was the runner-up.
Assembly seats that fall under Pratapgarh parliamentary constituency include Rampur Khas, Vishwanathganj, Pratapgarh, Raniganj, Patti.
Pratapgarh is one of the Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Elections 2024
General Elections in Uttar Pradesh holds major significance because the state has the biggest share of seats in Lok Sabha. This year's elections saw the state going to polls across all the seven phases from 19 April to 1 June.
Out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the state’s ruling party BJP is contesting on 75 of them, while its NDA partners Apna Dal (Soneylal), Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) got two seats each and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) got the remaining one seat. According to the INDIA alliance parties in the state, Samajwadi Party (SP), has fielded candidates on 62 seats, leaving 17 seats for Congress and one seat for Trinamool Congress.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the two major forces of the state – SP and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) – joined hands against BJP. But they could only win 15 seats (10 BSP and 5 SP). BJP maintained its edge by winning 62 seats and its ally ADAL secured two seats. Congress could win just one seat. In the previous Lok Sabha elections of 2014, the 'Modi wave' helped BJP win 71 seats and its ally Apna Dal won two seats, too. SP was left with just five, and Congress won two seats. BSP suffered a major upset as it failed to win even a single seat.
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