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.
Preparation by the Election Commission The election commission had appointed its total of 240 observers in the state in view of the preparations.
The filing of nomination along with voting was carried by the Election Commission in three days as:
Poll event PhaseIIIIII Notification date31 March 20048 April 200416 April 2004 Last date for filing the nomination7 April 200415 April 200423 April 2004 Date of Scrutiny8 April 200416 April 200424 April 2004 Last date for withdrawal of nomination10 April 200419 April 200426 April 2004 Date of poll26 April 20045 May 200410 May 2004Date of counting 13 May 2004
Voting PhasesI (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 AligarhBijnor 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.
Campaigning and Seat Alliances
The BJP in its party manifesto included building Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya as a part of 'Vision Document'. 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.
The table shows seat allotments alliance and party wise:
Alliance/Party Flag SymbolSeats contestedNational Democratic AllianceBharatiya Janata Party7780JD(U)3SP+Samajwadi Party7080Rashtriya Lok Dal 10INC+Indian National Congress7376Lok Janshakti Party 3Third FrontCommunist Party of India (Marxist)28Communist Party of India6
The BSP had contested all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
List of Candidates ConstituencySP+BSPNDAUPA # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate1Bijnor (SC) Munshiram Singh Ghan Shyam Kharwar Sheeshram Singh Ravi Jiraj Singh2Amroha Mahmood Madani Aley Hasan Chetan Chauhan Vikram Singh3Moradabad Shafiqur Rahman Barq Iftakar Md. Khan Chandra Vijay Singh4Rampur Jaya Prada Afroz Ali Khan Rajendra Sharma Begum Noor Bano5Sambhal Ram Gopal Yadav Tarannum Aqeel Omveer Singh Ashok Yadav6Budaun Saleem Shervani Prem Pal Singh Yadav Brijpal Singh Shakya Mhb. Husain Ansari7Aonla Rajveer Singh Sudhir Kumar Maurya Sarvraj Singh Alauddeen Khan8Bareilly Islam Sabir Akbar Ahmad Dumpy Santosh Gangwar Praveen Singh Aron9Pilibhit Satyapal Gangwar Anis Ahmad Khan Maneka Gandhi V. M. Singh10Shahjahanpur Rammurti Singh Verma Satyapal Singh Yadav Suresh Kumar Khanna Jitin Prasada11Kheri Ravi Prakash Verma Daud Ahmad Vinay Katiyar Rai Singh12Shahabad Babu Khan Iliyas Azmi Satya Dev Singh Mradul Shukla13Sitapur Mukhtar Anis Rajesh Verma Janardan Ps. Mishra Raja Mohd. Amir14Misrikh (SC) Sushila Saroj Ashok Kumar Rawat Paragi Lal Chau Ram Lal Rahi15Hardoi (SC) Usha Verma Shiv Prasad Verma Anita Verma Chand Ram16Lucknow Madhu Gupta Nasir Ali Siddiqui Atal Bihari Vajpayee17Mohanlalganj (SC) Jai Prakash Radhe Lal Mast Ram Reena Choudhary18Unnao Deepak Kumar Brajesh Pathak Devi Bux Singh Shivpal Singh Yadav19Rae Bareli Ashok Kumar Singh Rajesh Yadav Girish Narayan Panday Sonia Gandhi20Pratapgarh Akshay Pratap Singh Shiv Prakash Mishra Rama Shankar Singh Ratna Singh21Amethi Chandra Parkash Mishra Ram Vilashdas Rahul Gandhi22Sultanpur Shailendra Pratap Singh Mohd. Tahir Veena Pandey Satish Sharma23Akbarpur (SC) Shankhlal Majhi Mayawati Triveni Ram Jaisraj Gautam24Faizabad Ashok Kumar Singh Mitrasen Yadav Lallu Singh Nirmal Khatri25Bara Banki (SC) Ram Sagar Kamla Prasad Ram Rawat Anand P. Gautam26Kaiserganj Beni Prasad Verma Fareed Mahfooz Arif Md. Khan Gyanendra Singh27Bahraich Rubab Sayeda Bhagat Ram Mishra Padamsen Ch. D. R. Abdul R. Khan28Balrampur Dr. Mohd Umar Rizwan Zaheer Brij Bhushan Singh Ekbal Siddiqui29Gonda Kirti Vardhan Singh Fazlul Bari Ghan Shyam Shukla Vinay Kumar Pandey 30Basti (SC) Ratnakar Dhusiya Lal Mani Prasad Sriram Chauhan Umed Singh31Domariaganj Brij Bhushan Tiwari Mohammed Muqueem Ram Pal Singh Jagdambika Pal32Khalilabad Bhishma Tiwari Bhalchandra Yadava Ram Chaudhary33Bansgaon (SC) Subhawati Paswan Sadal Prasad Raj Narayan Mahaveer Prasad34Gorakhpur Jamuna Nishad Pradeep Kumar Nishad Yogi Adityanath Shardendu Pandey35Maharajganj Akhilesh Talat Ajiz Pankaj Harsh Vardhan36Padrauna Ram Aawad Yadav N. P. Kushwaha Ram Nagina Mishra Ratanjit Pratap37Deoria Mohan Singh Devi Prasad Sriprakash Mani Ramashish Rai38Salempur Harikeval Prasad Ramashankar Rajbhar Rajdhari Bhola Pandey39Ballia Kapildeo Yadav Parmatma Nand Tiwari40Ghosi Chandradeo Rajbhar Bal Krishna Bharat Lal Rahi Sudha Rai41Azamgarh Durga Prasad Yadav Ramakant Yadav Shah Mohammad Ram Naresh Yadav42Lalganj (SC) Daroga Saroj Dr. Baliram Kalpnath Deepchandra Visharad43Machhlishahr Chandra Nath Singh Umakant Yadav Keshari Tripathi Deovrat Mishra44Jaunpur Parasnath Yadav Om Prakash Dubey Chinmayanand Dhananjay Singh45Saidpur (SC) Tufani Saroj R. A. Prasad Vidyasagar Mata Prasad46Ghazipur Afzal Ansari Uma Shankar Manoj Sinha Shivprakash47Chandauli Ananda Maurya Kailash Yadav Shashikant Rajbhar Ashok Singh48Varanasi Anjana Prakash Amir Chand Patel Shankar Jaiswal Rajesh Mishra49Robertsganj (SC) Pakaudi Lal Kol Lalchandra Ram Shakal Brij K. Kanaujiya50Mirzapur Sharda Prasad Narendra Kushwaha Virendra Singh Rajesh Pati Tripathi51Phulpur Atiq Ahmed Keshari Patel Beni Madhav Bind Ram Pujan Patel52Allahabad Rewati Raman R. K. Singh PatelMurli Joshi Satya Malaviya53Chail (SC) Shailendra Kumar Vachaspati Amrit Lal Bharti Shashi Prakash54Fatehpur Achal Singh Mahendra Nishad Ashok Patel Khan Gufran Jahidi55Banda Shyama Charan Gupt Ram Sajeevan Bhairon Prasad Mishra Prakash Narain56Hamirpur Rajju Mahraj Ashok Kumar Chandel Surendra Pal Singh Gangacharan Rajput57Jhansi Chandrapal Yadav Babu Lal Kushwaha Rajendra Agnihotri Rajendra Pratap58Jalaun (SC) Ghanshyam Kori Brijlal Khabri Bhanu Pratap Verma Nathuram Verma59Ghatampur (SC) Radhey Shyam Kori Pyare Lal Sankhwar Kamal Rani Askaran Sankhwar60Bilhaur Lal Singh Tomar Raja Ram Pal Shyam Misra Madan Mohan Shukla61Kanpur Haji Mushtaq Solanki Anubhav Satyadev Pachauri Sriprakash Jaiswal62Etawah Raghuraj Shakya Sudheendra Bhadaurya Sarita Bhadauria Rajendra Prasad63Kannauj Akhilesh Yadav Th. Rajesh Singh Ramanand Yadav Vinay Kumar Shukla64Farrukhabad Chandra Singh Nagendra Singh Shakya Mukesh Rajput Louise Khurshid65Mainpuri Mulayam Singh Yadav Ashok Shakya Balram Yadav Rajendra Singh Jadon66Jalesar S. P. Singh Baghel Updesh Singh Chauhan Pratyendra Pal Singh Shivraj Singh Yadav67Etah Devendra Singh Yadav Ramgopal Shakya Ashok Ratan Shakya Ravindr68Firozabad (SC) Ramji Lal Suman Biresh Kumar Kishori Lal Mahaur Shivnarain Gautam69Agra Raj Babbar Pandit Keshav Dixit Murari Lal Mittal Surendra Singh70Mathura Dr. Gyanvati Singh Laxmi Narayan Ch. Ch. Tejveer Singh Manvendra Singh71Hathras (SC) Vimla Pal Ramvir Bhaiyaji Kishan Lal Diler Mukesh Kumar72Aligarh Dalveer Singh Thakur Jaivir Sheela Gautam Bijendra Singh73Khurja (SC) Ram Niwas Balmiki Ravi Gautam Ashok Pradhan Devi Dayal74Bulandshahr Badrul Islam Devendra Bhardwaj Kalyan Singh Chandra Skr. Sharma 75 Hapur Trilok Tyagi Kunwar Ayyub Ali Ramesh Tomar Surendra Goel 76 Meerut Malook Nagar Md. Shahid Akhlaq K. C. Tyagi K. K. Sharma 77 Baghpat Ajit Singh Aulad Ali Satya Pal Malik Jagveer 78 Muzaffarnagar Munawwar Hasan Suratsingh Verma Amar Pal Singh S. Saiduzzaman 79 Kairana Anuradha Chd. Shahnawaz Amarkant Rana Subhash Maheshwari 80 Saharanpur Rasheed Masood Mansoor Ali Khan Ch. Yashpal Singh Tara Ch. Shastri
Voting
The total voting percentage was recorded at 48.16 for all the three phases with 11,06,24,490 electorate casting their votes. 63 seats were reserved for the general caste while remaining 17 for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Results Party/Alliance Wise
The biggest gainer in the election was the Samajwadi Party which alone won 35 seats and its alliance partner RLD won 3 seats in western Uttar Pradesh. The SP alliance won almost half the seats from the state. SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav won from Mainpuri by a huge difference.
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. 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.
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.
The BSP registered its victory in 19 seats.
Results by Party/Alliance Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− rowspan="3" SP+ SP 1,42,43,280 26.74 2.68 68 35 9 RLD 23,91,825 4.49 2.00 10 3 1 Total 1,66,35,105 31.23 78 38 BSP 1,31,39,200 24.67 2.59 80 19 5rowspan="3" NDA BJP 1,18,10,187 22.17 5.47 77 10 19 JD(U) 4,25,460 0.80 0.21 3 1 1 Total 1,22,35,647 22.97 80 11 rowspan="3" INC+INC 64,12,293 12.04 2.68 73 9 1 LJP 1,50,545 0.28 3 0 Total 65,62,838 12.32 76 9 NLP 3,20,407 0.60 0.37 7 1 1 SJP(R) 2,71,563 0.51 0.05 2 1 AD 7,24,475 1.36 0.19 57 0 SBSP 2,58,628 0.49 13 0 Others 10,90,270 2.01 264 0 IND 20,31,483 3.81 0.19 481 1 1 Total 5,32,69,616 100% - 1138 80 -
Constituency Wise Results The detailed results per seat wise based on winning candidates is mentioned in table below: 351910934SPBSPBJPINCRLDIND and Others