Results of Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls with 17 mayors and 1,401 corporators will be declared today, with counting underway since 8 am.
Today, the results for Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls will be declared. The counting of votes has began at 8 am for the two phases of the Nagar Nikay Chunav elections and two Assembly constituencies' by-polls in Suar and Chhanbey. Out of the 4.32 crore eligible voters, around 53 per cent cast their votes during the two phases. The Election Commission data indicates that 17 mayors and 1,401 corporators will be elected after the results are announced. Senior political leaders, including CM Yogi Adityanath, Akhilesh Yadav, Keshav Prasad Maurya, and Brajesh Pathak, campaigned extensively for their respective parties. While BJP focused on infrastructure development in their "nagar vikas sankalp patra," Akhilesh targeted the ruling government over law and order issues.
According to UP BJP spokesperson Hero Bajpai, the party will win all 17 mayor seats and perform well in the corporators' category, nagar palika parishads, and nagar panchayats. SP spokesperson Deepak Ranjan claimed that the ULB polls will spring up a surprise and the cycle (SP's election symbol) has covered a significant distance. UP Congress media convenor Ashok Singh said that the party's performance in the election would surprise everyone, while Ankur Saxena, the spokesperson for Rashtriya Lok Dal, said their party's performance would be very good. Aam Aadmi Party leader Shekhar Dixit said that people had blessed them in the civic polls, and the results would prove it. Meanwhile, Rajesh Srivastava, the spokesperson of the UP unit of the Apna Dal (Sonelal), expressed confidence that both candidates of the party would register emphatic wins in the assembly by-elections.
As the vote counting for the Uttar Pradesh Nagar Nikay Chunav commenced, Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party's leader and former Chief Minister, tweeted that he hopes the Election Commission will continue to update the figures after each round to maintain public confidence.
According to Dainik Bhaskar, in the results of the Uttar Pradesh Nagar Nikay Chunav, the Bharatiya Janata Party is leading in eleven corporations, including the significant Ayodhya and Lucknow municipal corporations.
As counting of votes continues in the Karnataka Assembly elections and Uttar Pradesh Nagar Nikay polls, UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya expressed confidence that the BJP will receive the expected support of the public.
According to Dainik Bhaskar, the Congress is currently leading in the Kanpur municipal corporation, ahead of the BJP and SP. If this trend continues, it could be a significant upset in the UP Nagar Nikay Chunav.
The ongoing vote counting for the UP urban local body polls was marked by a fierce campaign by political leaders, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
The vote counting process has started for the local body polls in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.
As per current updates, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in Lucknow by 1,852 votes, while Samajwadi Party (SP) closely follows with 1,322 votes.
According to Dainik Bhaskar, AIMIM, led by Asaduddin Owaisi, is currently in the lead in Meerut, where the counting for the municipal corporation seat was delayed and started later than other seats. The ongoing vote count is for the UP urban local body polls, which saw heavy campaigning from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
BJP is currently ahead by 16,000 votes in Varanasi, with SP trailing at 9,000 votes, and Congress in third place with 5,000 votes. BSP is leading in Agra by 12,799 votes after the first round of counting, with BJP in second place at 7,378 votes, followed by SP at 1,363 votes, and AAP and Congress with 447 and 393 votes respectively. In the early trends of the UP Nagar Nikay Chunav results, BJP is leading in 14 mayor seats out of 17.
In the 2017 election, BJP had won 14 seats out of 16, while Aligarh and Meerut were won by BSP. This year, the seventeenth addition, Shahjanapur, is also a municipal corporation since 2018. BJP's candidate is leading in Varanasi, while Congress is in second place according to early trends.
BJP's candidate Bihari Lal Arya emerged victorious in the UP Nagar Nikay Chunav, making it the party's first win in the polls. Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya congratulated Arya through a tweet. As per the latest updates, BJP is leading in 15 out of the 16 remaining seats.
Sushma Kharakwal, the BJP candidate, is currently ahead in the race for Lucknow Mayor by a margin of 41,000 votes. With 12 corporator seats already secured, the BJP is also leading in 70 of the 110 wards in the city.
BJP leads by a huge margin of 2.08 lakh votes in Lucknow mayoral seat after 20 rounds of counting, leaving SP trailing with 1.19 lakh votes.
Meanwhile, in Varanasi, after the fourth round of counting, BJP's candidate Ashok Tiwari is leading with 49,243 votes, followed by SP's Om Prakash Singh with 25,793 votes. Congress's Anil Srivastava has received 15,062 votes, while BSP's Subhash Chand Majhi and AAP's Sharda Tandon have 5,397 and 1,163 votes respectively.
The BJP emerges victorious in the 2023 UP local body elections.
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