Kannauj LS Election Result 2024 LIVE: Akhilesh Yadav Leading By Over 117749 Votes | Latest Trends

Kannauj Election 2024 Result LIVE: Counting of votes has begun at 8am for the high-profile seat of Kannauj on Tuesday, June 4. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is contesting from Kannauj Lok Sabha seat as the INDI alliance candidate, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Subrat Pathak from the seat. Subrat Pathak had won Kannauj seat for the BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha election, defeating Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav. Akhilesh had earlier fielded Lalu Yadav's son-in-law and sitting Mainpuri MP Tej Pratap from Kannauj. However, after party workers' demand, Akhilesh himself filed the nomination papers from Kannauj.  Voting on Kannauj seat was held on May 13 in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

Kannauj Lok Sabha Election Result 2024: Here Are The LIVE Updates

• Akhilesh Yadav leads by 117749 votes at 15:54 pm 

• Akhilesh Yadav leads in Kannauj by a margin of over 85,000 seats
• At 11:34am, Akhilesh Yadav leading by over 50,000 votes 

• At 10:20 am, Akhilesh Yadav leading by over 30,000 votes. 
• Akhilesh Yadav leading by 10,000 votes, showed latest data of Election Commmission 

• Initial Trends- Akhilesh Yadav is leading from the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat, suggest initial trends. 
• Counting of postal ballots began at 8 am for the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat. 

Kannauj No More a SP Bastion?

Kannauj has traditionally been a Samajwadi Party bastion with Akhilesh Yadav winning the seat first in 2000. He later went on to represent Kannauj in 2004 and 2009. He vacated the seat after he became the Uttar Pradesh chief minister in 2012, and his wife Dimple Yadav won the by-election unopposed. Dimple also won in 2014 but lost the seat to BJP's Subrat Pathak in 2019.  Akhilesh, an MLA from the Karhal assembly seat in Mainpuri, is the Leader of Opposition in the UP assembly.