BJP Prospects In UP Lok Sabha Polls: As the Lok Sabha election 2024 dates draw closer, the 'world's largest political' outfit, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has set a target of 370 seats in the Lok Sabha election 2024. The BJP, therefore, has set its sights on all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the state with the most Lok Sabha constituencies. The BJP is now meticulously framing its Lok Sabha candidates list for the 2024 polls.
The BJP in Uttar Pradesh, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi, is banking on a lot of its sitting MPs to achieve the unprecedented feat.
In 2019, the saffron party won 62 of the 80 seats, with General VK Singh winning the Ghaziabad seat by the highest margin of over 5 lakh votes against his closest competitor, the Samajwadi Party's Suresh Bansal. In the 2014 polls, Gen VK Singh had set an even bigger win margin of 5,67,260 votes against the Congress's Raj Babbar, which remains a record in the constituency that was carved out in 2008. Earlier, the region was included in the Hapur Lok Sabha constituency.
The BJP's slimmest margin of win was in Machhlishahr, where former BSP leader Bholanath Saroj won by just 181 votes against the Bahujan Samaj Party's Tribhuvan Ram.
Here's how the BJP fared in UP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
How Many Seats BJP Won In UP In 2019 Lok Sabha Elections?
| Constituency | Winner Name | Social Category | Win Margin | |
| 1 | Ghaziabad | Vijay Kumar Singh | GENERAL | 501500 |
| 2 | Fatehpur Sikri | Rajkumar Chahar | GENERAL | 495065 |
| 3 | Varanasi | Narendra Modi | GENERAL | 479505 |
| 4 | Unnao | Swami Sakshi Ji Maharaj | GENERAL | 400956 |
| 5 | Jhansi | Anurag Sharma | GENERAL | 365683 |
| 6 | Lucknow | Rajnath Singh | GENERAL | 347302 |
| 7 | Maharajganj | PANKAJ CHOUDHARY | GENERAL | 340424 |
| 8 | Kushi Nagar | VIJAY KUMAR DUBEY | GENERAL | 337560 |
| 9 | Gautam Buddha Nagar | Dr. MAHESH SHARMA | GENERAL | 336922 |
| 10 | Gorakhpur | Ravindra Shyamnarayan Shukla alias Ravi Kishan | GENERAL | 301664 |
| 11 | Mathura | HEMA MALINI | GENERAL | 293471 |
| 12 | Bulandshahr | BHOLA SINGH | SC | 290057 |
| 13 | Akbarpur | Devendra Singh 'Bhole' | GENERAL | 275142 |
| 14 | Shahjahanpur | Arun Kumar Sagar | SC | 268418 |
| 15 | Kaiserganj | Brijbhusan Sharan Singh | GENERAL | 261601 |
| 16 | Hathras | RAJVIR DILER | SC | 260208 |
| 17 | Pilibhit | Feroze Varun Gandhi | GENERAL | 255627 |
| 18 | Deoria | RAMAPATI RAM TRIPATHI | GENERAL | 249931 |
| 19 | Hamirpur | KUNWAR PUSHPENDRA SINGH CHANDEL | GENERAL | 248652 |
| 20 | Aligarh | SATISH KUMAR GAUTAM | GENERAL | 229261 |
| 21 | Farrukhabad | Mukesh Rajput | GENERAL | 221702 |
| 22 | Kheri | Ajay Kumar | GENERAL | 218807 |
| 23 | Agra | Satyapal Singh Baghel | SC | 211546 |
| 24 | Fatehpur | NIRANJAN JYOTI | GENERAL | 198205 |
| 25 | Allahabad | Rita Bahuguna Joshi | GENERAL | 184275 |
| 26 | Phulpur | Keshari Devi Patel | GENERAL | 171968 |
| 27 | Bareilly | SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR | GENERAL | 167282 |
| 28 | Gonda | KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH ALIAS RAJA BHAIYA | GENERAL | 166360 |
| 29 | Dhaurahra | REKHA VERMA | GENERAL | 160611 |
| 30 | Jalaun | BHANU PRATAP SINGH VERMA | SC | 158377 |
| 31 | Kanpur | Satyadev Pachauri | GENERAL | 155934 |
| 32 | Bansgaon | Kamlesh Paswan | SC | 153468 |
| 33 | Hardoi | Jai Prakash | SC | 132474 |
| 34 | Bahraich | AKSHAIBAR LAL | SC | 128752 |
| 35 | Etah | Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya) | GENERAL | 122670 |
| 36 | Pratapgarh | SANGAM LAL GUPTA | GENERAL | 117752 |
| 37 | Aonla | DHARMENDRA KASHYAP | GENERAL | 113743 |
| 38 | Salempur | RAVINDER | GENERAL | 112615 |
| 39 | Barabanki | Upendra Singh Rawat | SC | 110140 |
| 40 | Domariyaganj | JAGDAMBIKA PAL | GENERAL | 105321 |
| 41 | Sitapur | Rajesh Verma | GENERAL | 100833 |
| 42 | Misrikh | Ashok Kumar Rawat | SC | 100672 |
| 43 | Kairana | Pradeep Kumar | GENERAL | 92160 |
| 44 | Mohanlalganj | Kaushal Kishore | SC | 90204 |
| 45 | Faizabad | LALLU SINGH | GENERAL | 65477 |
| 46 | Etawah | Dr RAM SHANKAR KATHERIA | SC | 64437 |
| 47 | Banda | R.K. SINGH PATEL | GENERAL | 58938 |
| 48 | Amethi | Smriti Irani | GENERAL | 55120 |
| 49 | Bhadohi | RAMESH CHAND | GENERAL | 43615 |
| 50 | Kaushambi | VINOD KUMAR SONKAR | SC | 38722 |
| 51 | Sant Kabir Nagar | PRAVEEN KUMAR NISHAD | ST | 35749 |
| 52 | Basti | HARISH CHANDRA ALIAS HARISH DWIVEDI | GENERAL | 30354 |
| 53 | Firozabad | Dr. Chandra Sen Jadon | GENERAL | 28781 |
| 54 | Baghpat | Dr. SATYAPAL SINGH | GENERAL | 23502 |
| 55 | Badaun | Dr. Sanghmitra Maurya | GENERAL | 18454 |
| 56 | Ballia | Virendra Singh | GENERAL | 15519 |
| 57 | Sultanpur | Maneka Gandhi | GENERAL | 14526 |
| 58 | Chandauli | Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey | GENERAL | 13959 |
| 59 | Kannauj | Subrat Pathak | GENERAL | 12353 |
| 60 | Muzaffarnagar | Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | GENERAL | 6526 |
| 61 | Meerut | RAJENDRA AGARWAL | GENERAL | 4729 |
| 62 | Machhlishahr | Bholanath Saroj | SC | 181 |
In the run up to the Lok Sabha elections 2024, the BJP has released 195 names in its first list of candidates. Of these, 51 MPs are from Uttar Pradesh. The BJP, however, is yet to announce the candidates for the Sultanpur, Pilibhit and Kaiserganj seats where the incumbent MPs are Maneka Gandhi, Varun Gandhi, and Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
The BJP has named three candidates who lost the 2019 polls — Neelam Sonkar from Lalganj, Parmeshwar Lal Saini from Sambhal, and Kanwar Singh Tanwar from Amroha — in the first candidate list for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.