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Congress Demanding 150+ Seats: Election Data Reveals Weak Position, Raising Questions
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News18•05-10-2026, 10:19
Congress Demanding 150+ Seats: Election Data Reveals Weak Position, Raising Questions
- •Uttar Pradesh is gearing up for assembly elections next year, with NDA aiming for a hat-trick and the opposition vying for power.
- •The Samajwadi Party and Congress are set to contest together under the INDIA alliance, but seat-sharing talks are stalled.
- •Congress is demanding over 150 seats, while the Samajwadi Party fears that giving more seats to Congress could increase the risk of defeat.
- •In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress contested 17 seats and won 6, including Amethi, Rae Bareli, Barabanki, Sitapur, Saharanpur, and Allahabad.
- •In the 2022 assembly elections, Congress contested 399 seats alone and won only 2, with a total vote percentage of 2.33%.
Key Questions Answered
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party contested 17 seats in Uttar Pradesh and won 6 of them, achieving a strike rate of 35 percent.
During the 2022 assembly elections, Congress contested alone across 399 out of 403 seats in the state, winning only 2 seats with a total vote percentage of 2.33 percent.
In the 2017 assembly elections, where Congress contested 114 seats in an alliance with the Samajwadi Party, the party won only 7 seats and secured a 6.25 percent vote share.
