In the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, voting will be held for 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh on 20th May. This includes the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat, which is one of the country’s most renowned constituencies. The BJP, which has won this seat in the last eight elections, has nominated current MP and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh for the third consecutive time. The Samajwadi Party has nominated Lucknow Central MLA Ravidas Mehrotra as its candidate from the India Alliance for this seat. The Bahujan Samaj Party has selected Sarwar Malik as its candidate. Apart from these, seven other candidates are also contesting for this seat.

There are 5 assembly constituencies under Lucknow Lok Sabha seat. These include Lucknow East, Lucknow West, Lucknow Central, Lucknow North and Cantt Assembly seats. There are a total of 39 lakh 33 thousand 17 voters in this parliamentary constituency. These include 20 lakh 82 thousand 888 male voters, 18 lakh 49 thousand 960 female voters and 169 third gender voters. Congress has won the Lucknow seat six times, and BJP has won eight times. Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, sister of the country’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, became the first MP from this high-profile seat. Apart from this, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a five-time MP from Lucknow seat. In 2019, BJP’s Rajnath Singh became MP from this seat by defeating SP candidate Poonam Sinha. In this election, BJP candidate Rajnath Singh got 6 lakh 33 thousand 26 votes. SP candidate Poonam Sinha, who came second in the election, had received 2 lakh 85 thousand 724 votes. Earlier in the 2014 general elections, Rajnath Singh had defeated Rita Bahuguna Joshi of Congress by 2 lakh 72 thousand 749 votes. In both the last elections, Rajnath Singh received more than 50 percent of the votes. Rajnath Singh is contesting as a BJP candidate for the third time in this election. In the alliance, SP’s Ravidas Mehrotra and BSP’s Sarwar Malik are challenging him.