While in the last assembly elections in 2012 the Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate had won the Goshainganj seat by a margin of more than 50000 votes, in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP candidate from the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency, Hari Om Pandey, had secured a lead of 52272 votes over his nearest BSP rival Rakesh Pandey in the Goshainganj assembly segment.