Gorakhpur election result 2019 Live: Actor Ravi Kisan wins prestige battle for BJP on Adityanath turf

Gorakhpur Lok Sabha election result:  BJP’s Ravi Kisan won the Gorakhpur seat by the margin of 3,01,663 votes. While he bagged 717122 votes, his nearest rival Rambhual Nishad of Samajwadi Party got 415458 votes. Winning the seat was a presitige issue for the party as it lost the Lok Sabha bypoll in the Yogi Adityanath strong hold. Adityanath had to leave the seat after being appointed as Uttar Pradesh CM.

Among the 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh, Gorakhpur went to polls during the seventh phase on May 19. The seat was represented in the Lower House of the Parliament by Yogi Adityanath as many as five times since 1998.

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The by-election that followed after Yogi Adityanath vacated the seat came as a rude shock for the BJP. Effecting a major upset, Samajwadi Party’s Praveen Kumar Nishad defeated BJP’s Upendra Dutt Shukla by a margin of 21,881 votes. While Nishad got 4,56,513 votes, his nearest rival garnered 4,34,632 votes. This bypoll also acted as the testing ground for the alliance between bitter rivals Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. As part of the arrangement, the BSP did not field its candidate and extended support to SP in the by-election.

This time, BJP fielded actor-turned-politician Ravi Kishan from the constituency. He is up against Congress’ Madhusudan Tiwari, SP’s Ram Bhuwal Nishad and Dr Ashish Singh of CPI. With SP, BSP and RLD forming a magathbandhan, and Congress and BJP in the fray, Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency is set for a three-way contest. In 2014, Yogi Adityanath defeated his nearest rival Rajmati Nishad by the margin of 3,12,783 seats. While he got 5,39,127 votes, his nearest rival bagged 2,26,344 votes in his kitty. The third place had gone to BSP’s Ram Bhuwal Nishad, who got 1,76,412.

Even in 2014, Adityanth had defeated his nearest rival Vinay Shankar Tiwary of BSP by a margin of 2,20,271 votes. He got 4,03,156 votes compared to Tiwary’s 1,82,885 votes. Singer-turned politician also contested this year on an SP ticket, but stood third with 83,059 votes. Since then, he has switched sides to BJP and won 2014 Lok Sabha election from North East Delhi. Fighting from the same constituency this year, he is up against Congress’ veteran and three-time former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit.