- BJP 268
- SP 128
- BSP 3
- Cong 2
- Others 2
- BJP leads in 6 seats in Lucknow, SP leading in 3
- UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya has now taken a lead in the Sirathu assembly constituency seat by over 800 votes, according to poll trends. He was earlier trailing is trailing by 455 votes after the second round of counting.
- Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut asks to wait till 2pm as BJP leads in 4 states
- SP chief Akhilesh Yadav is leading in Karhal by 12,356 votes.
- Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party leader Omprakash Rajbhar, an ally of the Samajwadi Party, is trailing from the Zahoorabad constituency. SP’s Kishan Dixit is ahead of BJP’s Neelkanth Tiwari from Varanasi South assembly constituency. BJP has been winning from Varanasi South since 1989.
- BJP’s Alka Singh is leading in Sandila Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh, according to the ECI website.
The BJP set to retain power in Uttar Pradesh. It crossed the halfway mark as votes are counted for assembly elections held in seven rounds. It will be for the first time since 1985 that a ruling party will be returning to power in Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party is ahead in some 120 seats, improving its tally from the 2017 elections. The Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress are each in single digit for seats.Counting of votes for the 403-seat UP election 2022 is still underway.
Most of the exit polls have predicted a clear victory for the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh and Manipur, an edge in Uttarakhand, and a close contest in Goa. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) could make a huge leap in Punjab as exit polls have suggested a massive victory, with one pollster predicting up to 111 for Arvind Kejriwal’s party in 117-member assembly. Congress will be betting against the exit poll results for Punjab, where it is incumbent, and hoping that the neck-to-neck fight in Goa and Uttarakhand, as predicted by the pollsters, turn out in its favour.
