Muzaffarnagar

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Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha constituencies and Muzaffarnagar is one of them.

As per the last census report, Muzaffarnagar houses 24,22,474 people. Out of them, 14.21% of voters belong to Scheduled Caste category while 0.01% belong to Scheduled Tribes category. Moreover, 32.02% of voters are from urban areas while 67.98% voters stay in rural areas.

There are a total of 15,88,483 voters in the constituency. Among which, 8,75,186 are male voters and 7,13,297 are female voters.

In the previous elections, BJP's sitting MP Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan defeated BSP's Kadir Rana by a huge margin of 401,150 votes.

For the 2019 general elections of Muzaffarnagar, a total of 70% voters got inked.

This seat witnessed a battle between sitting MP Sanjeev Balyan of BJP and veteran leader Ajit Singh of RLD.

A neck-to-neck battle for Muzaffarnagar finally came to an end with Bharatiya Janata Party's Sanjeev Kumar Balyan winning the seat. Rashtriya Lok Dal's Ajit Singh polled 567254 and lost the constituency closely.