UP Municipal Elections Result 2023 LIVE
UP Municipal Elections Result 2023 LIVE: The high-octane Uttar Pradesh urban local body (ULB) elections will end today with the declaration of results for mayors and corporators in 17 municipal corporations and for chairpersons and members of Nagar Palika parishads as well as nagar panchayats.
This time also, there is a high probability of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state continuing its dominance by sweeping the urban local bodies while the opposition parties like Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Congress would be eyeing to regain the lost ground.
The counting of votes for the UP civic elections will begin at 8 am today. Voting for civic body elections was held in two phases on May 4 and May 11. In the civic elections on May 11, in the second phase, 53 per cent of voters exercised their franchise in 38 districts, while in the first phase on May 4, 52 per cent of polling was held in 37 districts of the state.
On the other hand, in Uttar Pradesh, the election for mayor was held in Agra, Jhansi, Shahjahanpur, Firozabad, Saharanpur, Meerut, Lucknow, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Aligarh, Bareilly, Moradabad, Gorakhpur, Ayodhya, Mathura-Vrindavan Municipal Corporation. The impact of the victory of the UP civic elections will also be seen in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. This time there is a close fight between BJP and SP in UP.
UP municipal election: Ganesh Kesarwani elected as new mayor of Prayagraj
Ganesh Kesarwani defeated his nearest rival SP’s Ajay Kumar Srivastava by a margin of 1,29,389 votes to bag the seat of Prayagraj mayor. He secured a total of 2,35,675 votes while Ajay Kumar Srivastava could manage just 1,06,286 votes. Congress candidate Prabha Shankar Mishra came in third with 40,486 votes while BSP’s Saeed Ahmad ended up in fourth place with 36,799 votes.
BJP wins Shahjahanpur, Aligarh mayor elections
BJP has won two more mayoral polls in Uttar Pradesh, taking the tally to eight.
BJP leaders felicitate CM Yogi Adityanath as BJP sweeps ULB polls
#WATCH | BJP leaders felicitate CM Yogi Adityanath as BJP sweeps urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh pic.twitter.com/vRhpNEcdZg
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) May 13, 2023
Prayagraj municipal election live updates
Results of 100 out of 100 seats of corporators have been declared:
BJP: 56
SP: 16
Independents: 19
Congress: 04
AIMIM: 02
BSO: 02
NISHAD (Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal): 01
Results declared so far: Nagar Palika Parishads
Nagar Palika Parishad
Chairmen (13/199)
BJP- 5
SP- 4
BSP- 0
Cong- 0
Members (1698/5327)
BJP- 397
SP- 118
BSP- 66
Cong- 30
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