The Election Commission conducted polling for 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh during seven phases of elections. According to the latest trends, Yogi Adityanath is set for another term as Chief minister as the BJP has now taken lead in more than 250 seats. In the 2017 assembly election, the party had won 312 of the 403 seats on offer.
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EC announces the result on 313 seats out of the 403-member assembly. BJP wins 208, SP 76. Counting ongoing on 90 seats.
CM Yogi Adityanath and other BJP leaders play holi, celebrate and greet party workers at the party office in Lucknow.
BJP candidate Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh won from Amethi's Tiloi assembly. Mayankeshwar defeated SP candidate Mo Naeem by 27,837 votes after receiving 99,307 votes.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath has won Gorakhpur (Urban) by 1.02 lakh votes.
Ghaziabad- Loni MLA Nandkishore Gurjar has won the election by more than 8,000 thousand votes. Defeated Madan Bhaiya of RLD.
BJP leader and UP Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya is trailing SP candidate Pallavi Patel by 2,103 votes from the Sirathu seat.
Pankaj Singh, son of Union Minister Rajnath Singh, who contested from Noida constituency in Uttar Pradesh, won by a margin of 1,79,000 votes.
As per EC, BJP has so far won 4 seats while leading on 244 seats. Samajwadi Party is leading 115 seats, Rashtriya Lok Dal leading in 11 seats.
The improvement in law and order under Yogi Adityanath's government has contributed to BJP's victory in Uttar Pradesh, said Union Minister Anurag Thakur. Speaking to Republic, he further said that the SP, BSP and Congress have been wiped out from the state.
As per the latest trends by Election Commission, the BJP is leading on 247 seats while the SP is leading on 122 out of the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
As per the latest trends, the BJP is leading on 273 seats while the SP is leading on 121 out of the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Meanwhile, BJP's Shrikant Sharma of BJP is leading by 55,050 votes in the Mathura- Vrindavan Legislative Assembly.
Yogi Adityanath widens margin, leads with over 51,000 votes while BJP leading in all 8 seats of Lakhimpur Kheri. Similarly, UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya leads from Sirathu seat by over 800 votes.
BJP leads in Pilibhit, Barkheda & Bisalpur while party's Pankaj Singh is leading from Noida by over 33,000 votes. BJP's UP Law Minister Brajesh Pathak is also leading by over 9,000 votes from Lucknow Cantonment.
As per the trends shared by the Election Commission for 396 seats out of the 403, the BJP is leading on 248 seats in UP as opposed to the SP's lead on 108 seats.
As the BJP gets a clear lead in Uttar Pradesh, Bhojpuri superstar and BJP MP Ravi Kishan speaks to Republic. He says, 'SP pooch raha tha 'UP me Kaa ba'. Hum bole 'double-engine sarkaar ba.'
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Soon after the counting of votes began today at 8 AM, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said that the counting of votes is a transparent process, there is a standard operating procedure under which it is conducted and only authorised polling agents of the political parties are allowed to come inside the counting centre.
On EVM tampering questions, he said, "There is no question of EVM tampering. EVMs are continuously used since 2004, in 2019 we have started using VVPAT at every polling booth. EVMs are sealed in the presence of political party agents."
"As many as 31,000 new polling booths were created for the Assembly polls. We created 1,900 polling booths that were run by women & large women participation was seen due to this. In 4 out of 5 states, the percentage of female voters was higher than that of male voters," the CEC told ANI.