In the previous elections, the SP had scored a duck in Gorakhpur and had failed to bag a single seat. This time, however, the party has kept caste equations in mind while nominating all nine candidates in the district.
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Beginning from 1957, when the constituency came into existence and Congress won the seat and eventually formed the government, till Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) came into power in 2017, all the parties which formed the government conquered this seat.
Since Hastinapur constituency in Uttar Pradesh s Meerut district came into existence, the assembly election results in the state have shown that whichever political party won this legislative assembly seat has always formed the government in the state.