Landslide victory for BJP in UP; SP, BSP, Congress routed

The party under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee had bagged 58 seat in 1998, when NDA government was formed at the Centre. In 1998, Uttar Pradesh had 85 seats of which five have gone to Uttarakhand after division.  Led by a whirlwind campaign by its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the party improved its all time high vote share of 36.49 per cent taking it to over 42 per cent.

A saving grace for BSP is that it remained second on 33 seats. The party, however, lost is voter base from 27.42 per cent in 2009 to 19.7 per cent this election.  Ruling SP marginally lost its vote share from 23.26 per cent in 2009 when it had won 23 seats to 22.1 this election.  

Mulayam won both Azamgarh and Mainpuri seats, daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav won from Kannauj and nephews Dharmanadra Yadav and Akshay Yadav won from Badaun and Firozabad seats respectively.

All the Congress ministers including Salman Khurshid, RPN Singh, Beni Prasad Verma, Pradip Jain Aditya, PL Punia and sitting MPs lost from their respective seats.  BJP ally Apna Dal won both Pratapgarh and Mirzapur seats, where Harivansh Singh and Anupriya Patel clinched victory.