That Jaswantnagar is a stronghold of Samajwadi Party (SP) can be gauged from the fact that in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the SP supremo Mulyam Singh Yadav had established a massive lead of 162341 votes over his nearest BJP rival Shatrughan Singh Chauhan in the Jaswantnagar assembly segment in spite of the Modi wave raging across in the state of Uttar Pradesh.