Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 seats in Lok Sabha, goes to polls in the sixth phase of general elections on May 12. Currently held by BJP's Krishna Pratap Singh, Jaunpur has never elected a sitting MP since 1971. Before KP Singh who won in 2014 with a margin of 1.47 lakh votes, local strongman and a mafia-turned-politician Dhananjay Singh won from here in 2009 on a BSP ticket. He again wanted to contest from here but under the alliance arrangement, the seat went to the BSP which has fielded Shyam Singh Yadav. The counting of votes of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be conducted on May 23.

Source: dna May 11, 2019 11:44 UTC