Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajnath Singh won from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow constituency in the 2019 general election with a margin of . 3,45,023 votes against Samajwadi Party’s Poonam Sinha.
The Lucknow seat is considered a bastion for the BJP, which has not lost the seat since 1991. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee won from the seat for five consecutive terms. While Singh is considered a political heavyweight, his opponent Sinha recently joined the SP and is contesting for the first time.
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In 2014, Singh, who was BJP president before Amit Shah took over, defeated Congress’s Rita Bahuguna Joshi by a whopping margin of over 2.7 lakh votes.