Sriprakash Jaiswal
Counting of votes for Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency is underway, and ----------- is set to register a victory over nearest rival -- ___.
------------ is leading on the seat with ___ votes, ___ greater than ___'s ___.
Veteran BJP leader Dr Murali Manohar Joshi is the sitting MP from Kanpur. In 2014 Lok Sabha election, Joshi defeated Congress' Sriprakash Jaiswal to register a victory in the constituency.
Joshi got about 57 per cent of votes while Jaiswal could secure only about 30 per cent of votes.
This time Congress' Sriprakash Jaiswal is facing-off BJP's Satyadev Pachauri.
In three of last four Lok Sabha elections, Congress has been able to secure victory in Kanpur only once. Congress' Sriprakash Jaiswal, who is three time-MP from Kanpur is in the fray this time.
Kanpur has 13,09,055 voters -- out of which about 56 per cent are men and 44 per cent are women.
The Kanpur parliamentary constituency comprises of five assembly constituencies.
The seven phases of the Lok Sabha polls 2019 covered a total of 543 constituencies. Voting in the first phase was conducted on April 11.
Simultaneous elections were held to the assemblies of Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, and Odisha -- the results for which will also be out today.
