The 2024 Indian general election was held in Uttar Pradesh in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 80 members of the 18th Lok Sabha, with the results declared on 4 June. Bypolls for Dadraul, Lucknow East, Gainsari, and Duddhi assembly constituencies were held alongside this election.
Uttar Pradesh, along with Bihar and West Bengal, were the only states where the 2024 Indian general election was held in all seven phases.
All opinion polls and exit polls forecasted a landslide win for the BJP, but the INDIA alliance of SP and INC instead won 43 seats and secured 43.52% of the popular vote. Meanwhile the NDA won 36 seats and secured 43.69% of the popular vote.
Election schedule Poll event Phase I II III IV V VI VII Notification date 20 March 28 March 12 April 18 April 26 April 29 April 7 May Last date for filing nomination 27 March 4 April 19 April 25 April 3 May 6 May 14 May Scrutiny of nomination 28 March 5 April 20 April 26 April 4 May 7 May 15 May Last Date for withdrawal of nomination 30 March 8 April 22 April 29 April 6 May 9 May 17 May Date of poll 19 April 26 April 7 May 13 May 20 May 25 May 1 June Date of counting of votes/result 4 June 2024 No. of constituencies 8 8 10 13 14 14 13
Parties and alliances
National Democratic Alliance
Party Flag Symbol Leader Contesting seats Bharatiya Janata Party Narendra Modi 74 75 NISHAD Sanjay Nishad 1NISHAD Party contesting Sant Kabir Nagar PC under BJP's symbol. Apna Dal (Sonelal) Anupriya Patel 2 Rashtriya Lok Dal Jayant Chaudhary 2 Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party Om Prakash Rajbhar 1 Total 80
Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
colspan="7" Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance Party Flag Symbol LeaderSeats Akhilesh Yadav 6162Jan Adhikar Party Babu Singh Kushwaha 1 Ajay Rai17 Lalitesh Pati Tripathi1 Total80
Others Party Flag Symbol Leader Contesting seats Bahujan Samaj Party Mayawati 79 Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) Chandrashekhar Azad 8 Communist Party of India 5
Candidates ConstituencyNDAINDIABSP # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate 1 Saharanpur Raghav Lakhanpal Imran Masood Majid Ali 2 Kairana Pradeep Kumar Iqra Choudhary Sripal 3 Muzaffarnagar Sanjeev Balyan Harendra Singh Malik Dara Singh Prajapati 4 Bijnor Chandan Chauhan Deepak Saini Vijender Singh 5 Nagina (SC) Om Kumar Manoj Kumar Paras Surendra Pal Singh 6 Moradabad Sarvesh Kumar Singh Ruchi Veera Irfan Saifi 7 Rampur Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi Mohibbullah Nadvi Zeeshan Khan 8 Sambhal Parmeshwar Lal Saini Zia ur Rahman Barq Saulat Ali 9 Amroha Kanwar Singh Tanwar Danish Ali Mujahid Husain 10 Meerut Arun Govil Sunita Verma Devvrat Kumar Tyagi 11 Baghpat Rajkumar Sangwan Amarpal Sharma Praveen Bansal 12 Ghaziabad Atul Garg Dolly Sharma Nand Kishore Pundir 13 G. B. Nagar Mahesh Sharma Mahendra Nagar Rajendra Singh Solanki 14 Bulandshahr (SC) Bhola Singh Shivram Valmiki Girish Chandra 15 Aligarh Satish Kumar Gautam Bijendra Singh Hitendra Kumar 16 Hathras (SC) Anoop Pradhan Jasveer Valmiki Hembabu Dhangar 17 Mathura Hema Malini Mukesh Dhangar Suresh Singh 18 Agra (SC) S. P. Singh Baghel Suresh Chand Kardam Pooja Amrohi 19 Fatehpur Sikri Raj Kumar Chahar Ramnath Sikarwar Ramniwas Sharma 20 Firozabad Thakur Vishwadeep Singh Akshay Yadav Chaudhary Basheer Ahmad 21 Mainpuri Jaiveer Singhhttps://mainpuri.nic.in/candidatesloksabhaelectionexpenditure2024/ Dimple Yadav Shiv Prasad Yadav 22 Etah Rajveer Singh Devesh Shakya Mohd. Irfan 23 Badaun Durvijay Singh Shakya Aditya Yadav Muslim Khan 24 Aonla Dharmendra Kashyap Neeraj Maurya Abid Ali 25 Bareilly Chhatrapal Singh Praveen Singh Aron 26 Pilibhit Jitin Prasada Bhagwat Sharan Anis Ahmed Khan 27 Shahjahanpur (SC) Arun Kumar Sagar Jyotsna Gond Dod Ram Verma 28 Kheri Ajay Mishra Teni Utkarsh Verma Akshay Kalra 29 Dhaurahra Rekha Verma Anand Bhadauriya Shyam Kishor Awasthi 30 Sitapur Rajesh Verma Rakesh Rathore Mahendra Singh Yadav 31 Hardoi (SC) Jai Prakash Rawat Usha Verma Bhimrao Ambedkar 32 Misrikh (SC) Ashok Kumar Rawat Sangita Rajwanshi B R Ahirwar 33 Unnao Sakshi Maharaj Annu Tandon Ashok Pandey 34 Mohanlalganj (SC) Kaushal Kishore R. K. Chaudhary Rajesh Kumar 35 Lucknow Rajnath Singh Ravidas Mehrotra Mohammad Sarvar Malik 36 Rae Bareli Dinesh Pratap Singh Rahul Gandhi Thakur Prasad Yadav 37 Amethi Smriti Irani Kishori Lal Sharma Nanhe Singh Chauhan 38 Sultanpur Menaka Gandhi Rambhual Nishad Udraj Verma 39 Pratapgarh Sangam Lal Gupta S. P. Singh Patel Prathmesh Mishra 40 Farrukhabad Mukesh Rajput Naval Kishore Shakya Kranti Pandey 41 Etawah (SC) Ram Shankar Katheria Jitendra Kumar Dohare Sarika Singh Baghel 42 Kannauj Subrat Pathak Akhilesh Yadav Imran bin Zafar 43 Kanpur Ramesh Awasthi Alok Misra Kuldeep Bhadauriya 44 Akbarpur Devendra Singh Raja Ram Pal Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi 45 Jalaun (SC) Bhanu Pratap Singh Narayan Das Ahirwar Suresh Chandra Gautam 46 Jhansi Anurag Sharma Pradeep Jain Aditya Ravi Prakash 47 Hamirpur Pushpendra Chandel Ajendra Singh Lodhi Nirdosh Kumar Dixit 48 Banda R. K. Singh Patel Krishna Devi Patel Mayank Dwivedi 49 Fatehpur Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Naresh Uttam Patel Manish Singh Sachan 50 Kaushambi (SC) Vinod Sonkar Pushpendra Saroj Shubh Narayan 51 Phulpur Praveen Patel Amarnath Maurya Jagannath Pal 52 Allahabad Neeraj Tripathi Ujjwal Rewati Ramesh Kumar Patel 53 Barabanki (SC) Rajrani Rawat Tanuj Punia Shiv Kumar Doharey 54 Faizabad Lallu Singh Awadhesh Prasad Sachidanand Pandey 55 Ambedkar Nagar Ritesh Pandey Lalji Verma Qamar Hayat 56 Bahraich (SC) Anand Kumar Gond Ramesh Gautam Brijesh Kumar 57 Kaiserganj Karan Bhushan Singh Bhagat Ram Mishra Narendra Pandey 58 Shravasti Saket Mishra Ram Shiromani Verma Muinuddin Ahamad Khan 59 Gonda Kirti Vardhan Singh Shreya Verma Saurabh 60 Domariyaganj Jagdambika Pal Bhishma Shankar Tiwari Mohd. Nadeem 61 Basti Harish Dwivedi Ram Prasad Chaudhary Lavkush Patel 62 Sant Kabir Nagar Praveen Kumar Nishad Pappu Nishad Nadeem Ashraf 63 Maharajganj Pankaj Chaudhary Virendra Chaudhary Saiyad Danish 64 Gorakhpur Ravi Kishan Kajal Nishad Javed Simnani 65 Kushinagar Vijay Kumar Dubey Ajay Pratap Singh Shubh Narayan Chauhan 66 Deoria Shashank Mani Tripathi Akhilesh Pratap Singh Sandesh 67 Bansgaon (SC) Kamlesh Paswan Sadal Prasad Ramsamujh 68 Lalganj (SC) Neelam Sonkar Daroga Saroj Indu Chaudhry 69 Azamgarh Dinesh Lal Yadav Dharmendra Yadav Mashood Ansari 70 Ghosi Arvind Rajbhar Rajeev Kumar Rai Balkrishna Chauhan 71 Salempur Ravindra Kushawaha Ramashankar Rajbhar Bhim Rajbhar 72 Ballia Neeraj Shekhar Sanatan Pandey Lallan Singh Yadav 73 Jaunpur Kripashankar Singh Babu Singh Kushwaha Shyam Singh Yadav 74 Machhlishahr (SC) B. P. Saroj Priya Saroj Kripa Shankar Saroj 75 Ghazipur Paras Nath Rai Afzal Ansari Umesh Singh 76 Chandauli Mahendra Nath Pandey Virendra Singh Satyendra Maurya 77 Varanasi Narendra Modi Ajay Rai Athar Jamaal Lari 78 Bhadohi Vinod Kumar Bind Lalitesh Pati Tripathi Harishankar Singh 79 Mirzapur Anupriya Patel Ramesh Chand Bind Manish Tripathi 80 Robertsganj (SC) Rinki Kol Chhotelal Kharwar Dhaneshwar Gautam
Issues
Paper leak The UPPSC police recruitment exam was held on 17 and 18 February. Some candidates and student organisations alleged that other candidates had the question paper 8–12 hours prior to the exam, and that it was available at a price between ₹50,000 (US$603) and ₹200,000 (US$2,413). On 19 February, the UP Police Recruitment Board chairperson Renuka Mishra said that there was no evidence to prove that there was a paper leak before the exam, while simultaneously constituting an internal committee to investigate the allegations. On 23 February, a large number of students protested in Lucknow, questioning the authenticity of the exam and demanding cancellation & re-examination. Another group protested at the UPPSC headquarters at Prayagraj the same day. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi and Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav tweeted in support of the students' protest, calling for a CBI probe into the incident. Protesting students ran the hashtag #ReExam_RO_ARO on social media. On 24 February, chief minister Yogi Adityanath announced that the exam had been cancelled and a re-exam would be conducted within the next six months.
Surveys and polls
Opinion polls
Exit polls
Voter turnout
Phase wise Phase Date Constituencies Voter turnout I 19 April 2024 Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Nagina, Moradabad, Rampur, Pilibhit 61.11% II 26 April 2024 Amroha, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Mathura 55.19% III 7 May 2024 Sambhal, Hathras, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Bareilly, Aonla 57.55% IV 13 May 2024 Shahjahanpur, Kheri, Dhaurahra, Sitapur, Hardoi, Misrikh, Unnao, Farrukhabad, Etawah, Kannauj, Kanpur, Akbarpur, Bahraich 58.22% V 20 May 2024 Mohanlalganj, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Jalaun, Jhansi, Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Barabanki, Faizabad, Kaiserganj, Gonda, 58.02% VI 25 May 2024 Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Phulpur, Allahabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Shravasti, Domariyaganj, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Lalganj, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr, Bhadohi 54.04% VII 1 June 2024 Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Bansgaon, Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Robertsganj 55.85% Total
Constituency wise Constituency Poll date Turnout Swing (±pp) 1 Saharanpur 19 April 2024 66.14% 4.73 2 Kairana 62.46% 4.99 3 Muzaffarnagar 59.13% 9.29 4 Bijnor 58.73% 7.49 5 Nagina 60.75% 2.91 6 Moradabad 62.18% 3.28 7 Rampur 55.85% 7.34 8 Sambhal 7 May 2024 62.91% 1.82 9 Amroha 26 April 2024 64.58% 6.47 10 Meerut 58.94% 5.35 11 Baghpat 56.16% 8.52 12 Ghaziabad 49.88% 6.01 13 Gautam Buddha Nagar 53.63% 6.86 14 Bulandshahr 56.16% 6.76 15 Aligarh 56.93% 4.75 16 Hathras 7 May 2024 55.71% 6.05 17 Mathura 26 April 2024 49.41% 11.67 18 Agra 7 May 2024 54.08% 5.04 19 Fatehpur Sikri 57.19% 3.23 20 Firozabad 58.53% 1.60 21 Mainpuri 58.73% 1.96 22 Etah 59.31% 2.39 23 Badaun 54.35% 2.82 24 Aonla 57.44% 1.53 25 Bareilly 58.03% 1.43 26 Pilibhit 19 April 2024 63.11% 4.30 27 Shahjahanpur 13 May 2024 53.36% 2.79 28 Kheri 64.68% 0.48 29 Dhaurahra 64.54% 0.15 30 Sitapur 62.54% 1.39 31 Hardoi 57.52% 1.02 32 Misrikh 55.89% 1.28 33 Unnao 55.46% 1.01 34 Mohanlalganj 20 May 2024 62.88% 0.09 35 Lucknow 52.28% 2.50 36 Rae Bareli 58.12% 1.78 37 Amethi 54.34% 0.26 38 Sultanpur 25 May 2024 55.63 0.74 39 Pratapgarh 51.45 2.11 40 Farrukhabad 13 May 2024 59.08% 0.36 41 Etawah 56.36% 2.16 42 Kannauj 61.08% 0.22 43 Kanpur 53.05% 1.40 44 Akbarpur 57.78% 0.35 45 Jalaun 20 May 2024 56.18% 2.31 46 Jhansi 63.86% 3.82 47 Hamirpur 60.60% 1.72 48 Banda 59.70% 1.10 49 Fatehpur 57.09% 0.30 50 Kaushambi 52.80% 1.76 51 Phulpur 25 May 2024 48.91% 0.21 52 Allahabad 51.82% 0.01 53 Barabanki 20 May 2024 67.20% 3.59 54 Faizabad 59.14% 0.55 55 Ambedkar Nagar 25 May 2024 61.58% 0.50 56 Bahraich 13 May 2024 57.42% 0.18 57 Kaiserganj 20 May 2024 55.68% 1.29 58 Shravasti 25 May 2024 52.83% 0.75 59 Gonda 20 May 2024 51.62% 0.58 60 Domariyaganj 25 May 2024 51.97% 0.29 61 Basti 56.67% 0.52 62 Sant Kabir Nagar 52.57% 1.63 63 Maharajganj 1 June 2024 60.31% 3.76 64 Gorakhpur 54.93% 4.88 65 Kushinagar 57.57% 2.22 66 Deoria 55.51% 2.39 67 Bansgaon 51.79% 3.59 68 Lalganj 25 May 2024 54.38% 0.48 69 Azamgarh 56.16% 1.40 70 Ghosi 1 June 2024 55.05% 2.26 71 Salempur 51.38% 4.05 72 Ballia 52.05% 2.30 73 Jaunpur 25 May 2024 55.59% 0.18 74 Machhlishahr 54.49% 1.53 75 Ghazipur 1 June 2024 55.45% 3.43 76 Chandauli 60.58% 1.25 77 Varanasi 56.49% 0.64 78 Bhadohi 25 May 2024 53.07% 0.46 79 Mirzapur 1 June 2024 57.92% 2.19 80 Robertsganj 56.78% 0.59 Total 56.92% 2.29
Strategies and outcomes