UP Civic Poll Results: BJP Takes Early Lead as Yogi Adityanath Faces Popularity Test


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New Delhi: Counting for the Uttar Pradesh civic elections kicked off on Friday morning with the BJP leading in nine mayoral seats as per early trends. The BSP was leading in six seats, the Congress was leading in Mathura mayoral seat, while the Samajwadi Party was yet to get ahead.


Counting in wards of Farrukhabad, Fatehabad and Deora started late as polling officials reported late for duty.


BJP’s mayor candidates were leading in Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Allahabad, Bareilly, Aligarh, Moradabad, Gorakhpur and Ayodhya as per initial trends. The BSP was leading in Meerut, Saharanpur, Agra, Firozabad, Jhansi and Ghaziabad.


In Gorakhpur, the erstwhile Lok Sabha constituency of CM Yogi Adityanath, BJP’s Sitaram Jaiswal was leading by 1,200 votes.


Counting of ballots polled in three phases on November 22, 26 and 29 was on under tight security cover and CCTV surveillance at 334 centres at district and tehsil headquarters, the state election commission said.


Central paramilitary forces have been deployed around the counting centres. Arrangements have also been made for web casting of the counting process.


The final results are expected by this evening. Results will be communicated to the candidates through SMS on their registered mobile numbers.


Official sources said no procession would be allowed during the counting process and following the announcement of the results.


The elections, coming eight months after the BJP’s landslide victory in the UP Assembly polls, are being seen as the first popularity test for the Yogi Adityanath government.


“The counting of ballots has started in all districts on a peaceful note. The results are likely by afternoon,” State Election Commission said here.


Polling was held for 16 nagar nigams, 198 nagar palika parishads and 438 nagar panchayats with an average turnout of all the three phases estimated at 52.5 per cent of the 3.32 crore voters.


The Yogi Adityanath government, soon after assuming office in March, had constituted two municipal corporations of Ayodhya and Vrindavan-Mathura.


The overall percentage recorded an improvement from 46.2 per cent in 2012 to 52.5 per cent this time.


The elections have generated a lot of political heat with the ruling BJP leaving nothing to chance. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath criss-crossed the state to woo voters in the name of development.


Aware that the BJP’s performance in the polls was being watched closely after its massive sweep of the state in the Assembly polls this year, Adityanath undertook a whirlwind campaign, unprecedented for a chief minister, during civic polls.


Opposition SP, BSP and Congress campaigns were on comparatively low key. Both SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati did not campaign for their candidates.


The three-phase UP municipal polls were marred by complaints of names missing from the voters list and EVM malfunctioning.


For the very first time, web-casting of 10% booths of every district was done in an attempt to monitor booth-level activity. Drones were also used at some sensitive and hyper-sensitive polling booths.


These elections have become more interesting because the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) decided to contest the elections on their own symbol. The Congress also tried its best to put up a good performance.


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