2004 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

The 2004 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh were held between 26 April and 10 May 2004 for the 14th Lok Sabha. The election results were declared on 13 May in which the national parties the BJP and the Congress performed quite badly while the state parties, SP and BSP did very well and fetched majority of the seats. Early polls called by the BJP proved disastrous for the party, although Congress managed to win and form the government at the national level.

2004 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh

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80 seats
Turnout48.16%[1]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Mulayam Singh Yadav Mayawati Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Party SP BSP BJP
Alliance NDA
Leader's seat Mainpuri Akbarpur Lucknow
Last election 26 14 29
Seats won 35 19 10
Seat change Increase 9 Increase 5 Decrease 19
Percentage 26.74% 24.67% 22.17%
Swing Increase 2.68% Increase 2.59% Decrease 5.47%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Sonia Gandhi Ajit Singh
Party INC RLD
Alliance UPA
Leader's seat Raebareli Baghpat
Last election 10 2
Seats won 9 3
Seat change Decrease 1 Increase 1
Percentage 12.04% 4.49%
Swing Decrease 2.68% Increase 2.00%

Preparation by the Election Commission

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The election commission had appointed its total of 240 observers in the state in view of the preparations.[2]

The filing of nomination along with voting was carried by the Election Commission in three days as:[3]

Poll event Phase
I II III
Notification date 31 March 2004 8 April 2004 16 April 2004
Last date for filing the nomination 7 April 2004 15 April 2004 23 April 2004
Date of Scrutiny 8 April 2004 16 April 2004 24 April 2004
Last date for withdrawal of nomination 10 April 2004 19 April 2004 26 April 2004
Date of poll 26 April 2004 5 May 2004 10 May 2004
Date of counting 13 May 2004
Voting Phases
I

(32 seats)

II

(30 seats)

III

(18 seats)

  • Rae Bareli
  • Pratapgarh
  • Amethi
  • Sultanpur
  • Akbarpur
  • Faizabad
  • Bara Banki
  • Kaiserganj
  • Bahraich
  • Balrampur
  • Gonda
  • Basti
  • Domariaganj
  • Khalilabad
  • Bansgaon
  • Gorakhpur
  • Maharajganj
  • Padrauna
  • Deoria
  • Salempur
  • Ballia
  • Ghosi
  • Azamgarh
  • Lalganj
  • Machhlishahr
  • Jaunpur
  • Saidpur
  • Ghazipur
  • Chandauli
  • Varanasi
  • Robertsganj
  • Mirzapur
  • Kheri
  • Shahabad
  • Sitapur
  • Misrikh
  • Hardoi
  • Lucknow
  • Mohanlalganj
  • Unnao
  • Phulpur
  • Allahabad
  • Chail
  • Fatehpur
  • Banda
  • Hamirpur
  • Jhansi
  • Jalaun
  • Ghatampur
  • Bilhaur
  • Kanpur
  • Etawah
  • Kannauj
  • Farrukhabad
  • Mainpuri
  • Jalesar
  • Etah
  • Firozabad
  • Agra
  • Mathura
  • Hathras
  • Aligarh
  • Bijnor
  • Amroha
  • Moradabad
  • Rampur
  • Sambhal
  • Budaun
  • Aonla
  • Bareilly
  • Pilibhit
  • Shahjahanpur
  • Khurja
  • Bulandshahr
  • Hapur
  • Meerut
  • Baghpat
  • Muzaffarnagar
  • Kairana
  • Saharanpur

Further the affidavits were filed by the contesting candidates from each seat respectively which were submitted to the Election Commission as mandated.[4]

Campaigning and Seat Alliances

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The BJP in its party manifesto included building Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya as a part of ‘Vision Document’.[5] The party had hoped that section of the public would believe there is no alternate to PM Vajpayee with the slogan: Kaho dil se, Atal phir se and would ultimately help in certain seats.[6]

The table shows seat allotments alliance and party wise:[7]

Alliance/Party Flag Symbol Seats contested
National Democratic Alliance Bharatiya Janata Party     77 80
JD(U)     3
SP+[8] Samajwadi Party     70 80
Rashtriya Lok Dal   Hand pump 10
INC+ Indian National Congress     73 76
Lok Janshakti Party     3
Third Front Communist Party of India (Marxist)  
 
2 8
Communist Party of India  
 
6

The BSP had contested all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.[9]

Voting

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The total voting percentage was recorded at 48.16 for all the three phases with 11,06,24,490 electorate casting their votes.[10] 63 seats were reserved for the general caste while remaining 17 for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.[11][12]

Results Party/Alliance Wise

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The biggest gainer in the election was the Samajwadi Party which alone won 35 seats[13] and its alliance partner RLD won 3 seats in western Uttar Pradesh. The SP alliance won almost half the seats from the state.[14] SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav won from Mainpuri by a huge difference.[15]

Perhaps the biggest loser was the BJP which was reduced to just 10 seats from previous 25 seats in 1999 general election from the state even though Vajpayee won comfortably from Lucknow.[8] Important state party leaders Maneka Gandhi and Yogi Adityanath were elected from Pilibhit and Gorakhpur respectively. The party’s India Shining campaign backfired badly for the party and they lost a substantial number of seats.[5]

Another national party Congress did not gained in the state and was limited to just 9 seats although their national party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi won from Raebareli and Amethi.[15][13]

The BSP registered its victory in 19 seats.

Vote share Party wise[16]

  SP (26.74%)
  BSP (24.67%)
  BJP (22.17%)
  INC (12.04%)
  RLD (4.49%)
  IND (3.81%)
  Others (6.08%)

Seats Party wise

  SP (43.75%)
  BSP (23.75%)
  BJP (12.5%)
  INC (11.25%)
  RLD (3.75%)
  IND (1.25%)
  Others (3.75%)

Constituency Wise Results

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The detailed results per seat wise based on winning candidates is mentioned in table below:[17]

35 19 10 9 3 4
SP BSP BJP INC RLD IND and Others
Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin
S No. Name Candidate Party Candidate Party % Votes
1 Bijnor Munshiram Singh Rashtriya Lok Dal Ghanshyam Chandr Kharwar Bahujan Samaj Party 11.36 80,175
2 Amroha Harish Nagpal Independent Mahmood Madani Rashtriya Lok Dal 2.02 17,884
3 Moradabad Shafiqur Rahman Barq Samajwadi Party Chandra Vijay Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 5.47 35,840
4 Rampur Jaya Prada Begum Noor Bano Indian National Congress 10.54 85,474
5 Sambhal Ram Gopal Yadav Tarannum Aqeel Bahujan Samaj Party 26.08 198,061
6 Badaun Saleem Iqbal Shervani Brijpal Singh Shakya Bharatiya Janata Party 8.70 51,322
7 Aonla Sarvraj Singh Janata Dal (United) Rajveer SIngh Samajwadi Party 1.28 6,871
8 Bareilly Santosh Gangwar Bharatiya Janata Party Akbar Ahmad Bahujan Samaj Party 7.25 59,644
9 Pilibhit Maneka Gandhi Satyapal Gangwar Samajwadi Party 15.17 102,720
10 Shahjahanpur Jitin Prasada Indian National Congress Rammurti Singh Verma 12.91 81,832
11 Kheri Ravi Prakash Verma Samajwadi Party Daud Ahmad Bahujan Samaj Party 1.66 11,760
12 Shahabad Iliyas Azmi Bahujan Samaj Party Satya Dev Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 8.00 46,369
13 Sitapur Rajesh Verma Mukhtar Anees Samajwadi Party 0.88 5,234
14 Misrikh Ashok Kumar Rawat Sushila Saroj 3.52 19,403
15 Hardoi Usha Verma Samajwadi Party Shiv Prasad Verma Bahujan Samaj Party 7.51 39,203
16 Lucknow Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party Madhu Gupta Samajwadi Party 37.74 218,375
17 Mohanlalganj Jai Prakash Samajwadi Party Radhe Lal Bahujan Samaj Party 0.45 2,568
18 Unnao Brajesh Pathak Bahujan Samaj Party Deepak Kumar Samajwadi Party 3.24 17,761
19 Raebareli Sonia Gandhi Indian National Congress Ashok Singh 38.81 249,765
20 Pratapgarh Akshay Pratap Singh Samajwadi Party Ratna Singh Indian National Congress 12.10 69,272
21 Amethi Rahul Gandhi Indian National Congress Chandraprakash Mishra Matiyari Bahujan Samaj Party 49.33 290,853
22 Sultanpur Mohammad Tahir Khan Bahujan Samaj Party Shailendra Pratap Singh Samajwadi Party 14.12 101,810
23 Akbarpur Mayawati Shankhlal Majhi 7.86 58,269
24 Faizabad Mitrasen Yadav Lallu Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 4.88 33,486
25 Barabanki Kamla Prasad Ram Sagar Rawat Samajwadi Party 3.87 20,922
26 Kaiserganj Beni Prasad Verma Samajwadi Party Arif Mohammad Khan Bharatiya Janata Party 2.22 12,660
27 Bahraich Rubab Sayda Bhagat Ram Mishra Bahujan Samaj Party 4.79 26,334
28 Balrampur Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party Rizwan Zaheer 7.54 52,613
29 Gonda Kirti Vardhan Singh Samajwadi Party Ghan Shyam Shukla Bharatiya Janata Party 6.10 36,998
30 Basti Lal Mani Prasad Bahujan Samaj Party Sriram Chauhan 4.40 25,374
31 Domariyaganj Mohammed Muqueem Jagdambika Pal Indian National Congress 8.23 52,902
32 Khalilabad Bhalchandra Yadava Bhishma Shankar Tiwari Samajwadi Party 3.86 27,023
33 Bansgaon Mahaveer Prasad Indian National Congress Sadal Prasad Bahujan Samaj Party 2.60 16,441
34 Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath Bharatiya Janata Party Jamuna Nishad Samajwadi Party 20.61 142,039
35 Maharajganj Pankaj Choudhary Akhilesh Singh 8.68 64,799
36 Padrauna Baleshwar Yadav National Loktantrik Party Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh Indian National Congress 1.07 8,422
37 Deoria Mohan Singh Samajwadi Party Prakash Mani Tripathi Bharatiya Janata Party 7.16 52,226
38 Salempur Hari Kewal Prasad Bhola Pandey Indian National Congress 2.43 16,253
39 Ballia Chandra Shekhar Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) Kapildeo Yadav Bahujan Samaj Party 13.08 81,054
40 Ghosi Chandradeo Prasad Rajbhar Samajwadi Party Bal Krishna 2.91 21,012
41 Azamgarh Ramakant Yadav Bahujan Samaj Party Durga Prasad Yadav Samajwadi Party 0.98 6,968
42 Lalganj Daroga Prasad Saroj Samajwadi Party Bali Ram Bahujan Samaj Party 5.60 42,731
43 Machhlishahr Umakant Yadav Bahujan Samaj Party Chandra Nath Singh Samajwadi Party 8.19 55,382
44 Jaunpur Parasnath Yadav Samajwadi Party Om Prakash Dubey Bahujan Samaj Party 3.80 27,125
45 Saidpur Tufani Saroj R. A. Prasad 4.19 29,810
46 Ghazipur Afzal Ansari Manoj Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party 26.09 226,777
47 Chandauli Kailash Nath Singh Yadav Bahujan Samaj Party Ananda Ratna Maurya Samajwadi Party 0.24 1,669
48 Varanasi Rajesh Kumar Mishra Indian National Congress Shankar Prasad Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party 9.07 57,436
49 Robertsganj Lalchandra Bahujan Samaj Party Pakaudi Lal Kol Samajwadi Party 1.43 10,362
50 Mirzapur Narendra Kumar Kushwaha Virendra Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 5.00 36,412
51 Phulpur Atique Ahmed Samajwadi Party Keshari Devi Patel Bahujan Samaj Party 8.52 64,347
52 Allahabad Rewati Raman Singh Murli Manohar Joshi Bharatiya Janata Party 4.32 28,383
53 Chail Shailendra Kumar Vachaspati Bahujan Samaj Party 0.11 630
54 Fatehpur Mahendra Prasad Nishad Bahujan Samaj Party Achal Singh Samajwadi Party 10.37 52,568
55 Banda Shyama Charan Gupta Samajwadi Party Ram Sajeevan Bahujan Samaj Party 10.70 56,304
56 Hamirpur Rajnarayan Budholiya Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel 6.15 37,154
57 Jhansi Chandrapal Singh Yadav Babu Singh Kushwaha 3.21 26,299
58 Jalaun Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma Bharatiya Janata Party Ghanshyam Kori Samajwadi Party 4.62 26,791
59 Ghatampur Radhey Shyam Kori Samajwadi Party Pyare Lal Sankhwar Bahujan Samaj Party 2.04 10,312
60 Bilhaur Raja Ram Pal Bahujan Samaj Party Lal Singh Tomar Samajwadi Party 3.80 24,402
61 Kanpur Sriprakash Jaiswal Indian National Congress Satyadev Pachauri Bharatiya Janata Party 0.91 5,638
62 Etawah Raghuraj Singh Shakya Samajwadi Party Sarita Bhadauria 27.01 190,157
63 Kannauj Akhilesh Yadav Thakur Rajesh Singh Bahujan Samaj Party 40.52 307,373
64 Farrukhabad Chandra Bhushan Singh Louise Khurshid Indian National Congress 0.41 2,745
65 Mainpuri Mulayam Singh Yadav Ashok Shakya Bahujan Samaj Party 46.93 337,870
66 Jalesar S. P. Singh Baghel Pratyendra Pal Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 16.31 106,068
67 Etah Devendra Singh Yadav Ashok Ratan Shakya 8.74 51,335
68 Firozabad Ram Ji Lal Suman Kishori Lal Mahaur 10.31 54,788
69 Agra Raj Babbar Murari Lal Mittal 8.92 57,342
70 Mathura Manvendra Singh Indian National Congress Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan Singh Bahujan Samaj Party 6.33 38,132
71 Hathras Kishan Lal Diler Bharatiya Janata Party Ram Vir Singh 4.64 22,837
72 Aligarh Bijendra Singh Indian National Congress Sheela Gautam Bharatiya Janata Party 0.44 2,791
73 Khurja Ashok Kumar Pradhan Bharatiya Janata Party Ravi Gautam Bahujan Samaj Party 6.85 41,150
74 Bulandshahr Kalyan Singh Badrul Islam Rashtriya Lok Dal 2.43 16,651
75 Hapur Surendra Prakash Goel Indian National Congress Ramesh Chand Tomar Bharatiya Janata Party 5.30 42,363
76 Meerut Mohammed Shahid Akhlaq Bahujan Samaj Party Malook Nagar Rashtriya Lok Dal 9.94 69,336
77 Baghpat Ajit Singh Rashtriya Lok Dal Aulad Ali Bahujan Samaj Party 33.59 220,638
78 Muzaffarnagar Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan Samajwadi Party Amar Pal Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 8.00 69,005
79 Kairana Anuradha Choudhary Rashtriya Lok Dal Shah Nawaz Bahujan Samaj Party 41.93 342,414
80 Saharanpur Rasheed Masood Samajwadi Party Mansoor Ali Khan 2.71 26,828

Post Result Analysis

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The result showed that both the national parties, BJP and the Congress were rejected by the state voters with the opinion poll proved equally wrong.[18] The state electorate seems to have upright rejected ‘’India shining’’ slogan coined by the BJP owing to its dismal performance. The party downward slide continued in numbers way lower than what when it had registered the victory in more than 50 seats in the state in subsequent 1991, 1996 and 1998 elections.[19] The decision for calling snap polls by the Vajpayee govt proved very costly for the party. The tally in the state was the lowest since 1989 election.[20] Notable state BJP leaders including union ministers Murli Manohar Joshi and Swami Chinmayanand, state assembly speaker Keshari Nath Tripathi and Uttar Pradesh party unit chief Vinay Katiyar were all defeated. The Ram temple issue also did not help as its party candidate Laloo Singh was defeated at Faizabad by BSP’s Mitrasen Yadav. The party failed to win even a single seat in Kashi (Varanasi) region which had 13 Lok Sabha seats. Another BJP prominent leader and ex-CM Kalyan Singh was able to win from Bulandshahr by a small margin of around 6500 votes but the party lost Aligarh, Singh’s hometown to the Congress.

In spite of campaigning by Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party was restricted to only 9 seats. The Congress lost Rampur, Meerut, Pratapgarh and Muzaffarnagar, but for the first time in a decade made victories in Poorvanchal (eastern) region by capturing Varanasi and Bansgaon seats.

The regional party, SP did quite well in the state, particularly in the eastern region and winning seats in the Bundelkhand region where it previously went blank in 1999 election. The alliance with the RLD proved fruitful in the western UP where Muslim-Jat-Yadav combined voted for the SP-RLD alliance.

Apart from it BSP also performed well with consolidation of dalit votes resulting in winning 19 seats from 14 before even in absence of party leader Kanshi Ram and Mayawati taking the charge thereof. Party strategy of fielding a large number of Muslims and upper caste candidates proved to be beneficial for the party.[8] Although the party had lost election deposit in 11 contesting seats.[9]

It was also determined by ‘Centre for the Study of Developing Societies’ that the majority of the people did not voted keeping in mind the negative statements about their leader or parties to whom they are supporting.[21]

References

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