Lok Sabha Elections Results: Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav maintained lead as early trends began on Tuesday morning ahead of Lok Sabha election result 2024. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minsiter is contesting from his family's stronghold to reclaim the fortress which went to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
As per the early trends by the Election Commisison of India, Akhilesh Yadav maintained a lead from the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat with 500 votes. Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party's Subrat Pathak is trailing from this seat.
Voting in Kannauj took place in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on May 13 with just over 59 per cent of voting.
The Kannauj Lok Sabha seat has been an SP fortress with Pradeep Yadav's win in 1998. Party patriarch, Mulayam Singh Yadav had also won this seat in 1999 and held it for three more terms.
Akhilesh Yadav had won this seat three times in a row in 2000, 2004, and 2009 Lok Sabha elections while his wife Dimple Yadav clinched the seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
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This seat again slipped from the hands of Yadav family in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after Pathak defeated Dimple to claim victory.
In a bid to reclaim the bastion and make a comeback to the Lower House of Parliament, party supremo Akhilesh Yadav is contesting from this seat which came after the tickets were reshuffled last minute.
Earlier, Akhilesh's nephew, Tej Pratap Yadav was nominated from this seat but later Akhilesh took the lead following dissatisfaction by party workers who had advocated that the SP supremo to contest from here.
Counting began for the votes polled for the 18th Lok Sabha seat on Tuesday morning. The process for counting began with the counting of postal ballot papers after which the voted cast through Electronic Voting Machine will be counted.