Lok Sabha Election Results: SP eats into BJP seat share in UP's Muslim-Yadav belts — was it vote consolidation?
especially in the Muslim-Yadav-dominated constituencies.Follow UP Election Results 2024 Live Updates hereOf the 34 Muslim-Yadav-dominated seats (analysed by Mint) in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP won 22 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. The BJP lost eight of these 22 seats to Akhilesh Yadav's SP and one to the Congress in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Simply put, the SP and the Congress (INDIA bloc allies) reduced the BJP's seat share in Muslim-Yadav-dominated seats – snatching away nine seats from the 22 seats won by the BJP in 2019.However, the SP didn't lose a single seat (won in 2019) to the BJP.
The SP retained five of these 34 seats it had won in the 2019 polls. These were Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Mainpuri and Azamgarh.Meanwhile, the BJP-NDA retained 13 of these 34 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP only retained 12 seats, while its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal bagged one.ALSO READ: Uttar Pradesh Election Results 2024: Full list of BJP, INDIA bloc winnersMeanwhile, Mayawati's Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) was wiped-out in the Muslim-Yadav dominated seats. The party had won seven of these 34 Muslim-Yadav-dominated seats in UP in 2019 – when the BSP and the SP contest in alliance.
The BSP lost all these seven seats in the 2024 polls.Mint analysed 23 Muslim-dominated Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. There were Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Nagina, Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Amroha, Meerut, Sitapur, Kairana, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Bahraich, Shrawasti, Domariyaganj, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Baghpat, Bulandshahar, Kanpur, Aligarh.The BJP won 14 of these 23 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.
It lost three of them to the SP-Congress alliance and retained the remaining 11 seats. Only one seat, Baghpat,
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