Up Elections 2022

UP portfolios: CM Yogi Adityanath keeps Home, Suresh Khanna gets Finance Ministry

Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has been allocated six departments — Rural Development, Rural Engineering, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax, Public Enterprise and National Integration

11 UP ministers fail to win their seats

According to the Election Commission website, of the 402 seats the result of which were declared, BJP won 255. Its alliance partners Apna Dal (Sonelal) bagged 12 and NISHAD Party six.

UP Election Results 2022 | How BJP's victory has repeated history after 37 years

After the President's rule that lasted about four months, the Congress came to power in Uttar Pradesh consecutively in 1980 and 1985 assembly elections with an absolute majority

UP election results 2022: BJP scores 3-2 in Ayodhya district in first poll after Ram Mandir order

While the BJP has won the majority of seats in Ayodhya, its performance is a setback as compared to 2017, when it had won all the five constituencies of the holy district.

UP Election Results 2022 | BJP turncoat Swami Prasad Maurya loses from Fazilnagar by over 45,000 votes

Maurya, who deserted the BJP in January to join the Samajwadi Party, after serving as labour minister in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet for about five years, has been defeated by his nearest rival Surender Singh Kushwaha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by over 26,000 votes.

UP election results 2022: 'Gangster' Mukhtar Ansari's son Abbas likely to win Mau, leads by over 35,000 votes

Mau is considered as a bastion of Mukhtar Ansari, who has won the constituency in five consecutive elections since 1996. In this elections, Ansari paved the way for his 30-year-old son.

Election Results 2022 | BJP marches ahead, Opposition faces crisis of confidence

With a little over two years to go for the general elections, the March 10 results have given the BJP a big fillip as it seeks to cement its position as the natural party of governance. The Congress and regional parties will watch this result with anxiety

Varanasi ADM to be removed by EC, say reports day after Akhilesh Yadav alleged EVM fraud

Akhilesh Yadav, the chief of the state's primary opposition Samajwadi Party, had demanded the Election Commission to launch in inquiry into the manner in which the EVMs were transported in Varanasi.

UP elections 2022: EVMs moved without informing local candidates, alleges Akhilesh Yadav

"Exit polls are creating a perception that the BJP is winning," the Samajwadi Party chief claimed, adding that the election in Uttar Pradesh is the "final fight for democracy".

UP Elections 2022 | Final phase of polling begins across 54 seats; all eyes on Varanasi, Azamgarh

The ruling BJP, which is locked in a fierce battle with the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP, would want to win most of these seats ahead of the 2024 general elections

EC to host virtual international election visitors programme on March 7

The participants will be showcased a recorded broadcast from select polling stations in each of the five states where polls have taken place as well as live streaming from polling stations in Varanasi

UP Elections 2022: BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi's son Mayank joins Samajwadi Party

Meanwhile, Rita Bahuguna Joshi said that she will remain in the BJP and has full faith in the national leadership, according to her media in-charge of Abhishek Shukla.

UP Elections 2022 | 7 key contests to watch for in last round

The ruling BJP is locked in a fierce battle with the SP and would want to win most of these seats before the 2024 general elections

UP Elections 2022 | PM Modi, other leaders throng Varanasi to campaign ahead of last round of polls

PM Modi will campaign for the party candidates in Varanasi on March 4 and 5, according to BJP's Varanasi city president Vidyasagar Rai. The BJP, and its allies, had won all eight assembly seats of Varanasi in 2017 assembly elections.

UP Elections 2022 | Voting begins in sixth phase across 57 seats; Yogi Adityanath, SP Maurya among big-wigs in fray

This phase of polling will seal the fate of 676 candidates, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, five ministers in his cabinet, state Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu and Samajwadi Party’s (SP) Swami Prasad Maurya.

UP Elections 2022 Phase V | SP seeks to regain past glory, BJP to retain dominance

The 61 seats in phase five is in a traditional stronghold of the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. That said, the BJP won 50 of these seats in 2017

UP Elections 2022 | Voting for 61 seats in round five begins; Amethi, Ayodhya among key battlegrounds

UP Election Phase 5 Voting | Key contestants include Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya from Sirathu assembly seat, Congress legislative party leader Aradhana Mishra from Rampur Khas, independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya from Kunda seat, and UP cabinet ministers Siddharth Nath Singh and Nand Gopal Gupta Nadi from Allahabad West and Allahabad South respectively.

UP Elections 2022 | From Amethi to Ayodhya: five keenly-watched battles in the next phase of polling this weekend

Four phases of polling, covering 231 of 403 seats, have been completed in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election. The remaining 172 constituencies will vote in three phases on February 27, March 3 and March 7. The results will be declared on March 10, along with the outcome of elections in Goa, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur

UP Elections 2022 | Conspicuous by his absence, Rahul Gandhi to hit campaign trail before Phase 5 polling

While the Wayanad member of parliament (MP) has campaigned in Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Punjab – the other four states that went to polls – he has not, so far, addressed a rally or undertaken any door-to-door campaign in Uttar Pradesh, where the fourth round of polling was held with over 57 per cent voter turnout on February 23.

UP elections 2022: Around 60% voter turnout recorded in fourth phase of polls

In 2017, 62.55 percent polling was reported across these seats while in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls it was 60.03 percent.

UP Elections 2022 | AAP's Sanjay Singh requests EC to ban BJP MLA Raghvendra Singh from contesting polls

In his letter to the poll panel, Singh, wrote that Raghvendra Singh, BJP MLA from Domariyaganj, has used objectionable language against the Hindu community in one of his public speeches.

UP Elections 2022 | Voting for 59 seats in Phase 4 begins. All eyes on Lucknow, Lakhimpur Kheri

Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022 Phase 4 Voting | With eight seats, Lakhimpur Kheri district poses a challenge to the ruling BJP. Though all the seats are held by the BJP, the recent bail to Ashish Mishra, the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’, who was arrested in connection with the violence that killed eight people, will test the ruling party

UP Elections 2022 | Yogi Adityanath lashes out at Akhilesh Yadav over riots, calls SP a 'dangesh'