Counting for Uttar Pradesh's 11 Legislative Council (MLC) seats neared completion on Wednesday, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) standing at six seats — five declared and one in which its candidate was leading — and the Samajwadi Party (SP) at five, with three declared wins and leads in two seats, according to the tally reported by ANI as results came in.
Source: ANI via Indian Economic Observer
Polling for the 11 seats — five graduates' constituencies and six teachers' constituencies — was held on October 23, with 152 candidates in the fray and about 14.81 lakh electors eligible to vote, IANS reported. The council contest has been widely viewed as a political semi-final ahead of the state assembly elections.
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New results declared on Wednesday
In the Lucknow teachers' constituency, the BJP's Umesh Dwivedi completed a hat-trick of wins, defeating the SP's Sushil Kumar by 4,818 votes, according to Jagran Josh's results table.
Source: Jagran Josh
Agra returned a split verdict. SP candidate Akash Agarwal won the Agra teachers' constituency for a second consecutive term and was handed his certificate of victory by Returning Officer Narendra Pratap, while the BJP's Manvendra Pratap Singh retained the Agra graduates' constituency, defeating the SP's Shashank Yadav.
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The SP also won the Allahabad-Jhansi graduates' seat, where its candidate Man Singh Yadav defeated the BJP's Ashok Rathore, The Daily Jagran's live counting coverage reported.
Source: The Daily Jagran
Seats decided earlier in the count
The BJP had earlier won both Meerut seats — Dinesh Kumar Goyal took the Meerut-Saharanpur graduates' constituency by 12,855 votes over the SP's Pramod Singh Bhati, and Shri Chand Sharma won the Meerut teachers' seat by 13,241 votes over Nitin Tomar — and also took the Bareilly-Moradabad teachers' seat through Hari Singh Dhillon. The SP's declared wins before Wednesday's results included the Varanasi teachers' constituency, retained by Lal Bihari Yadav.
Source: Jagran Josh
Counting still on in three seats
In the Lucknow graduates' constituency, the SP's Kanti Singh was ahead of the BJP's Avnish Singh by 7,600 votes after the fourth round of counting, and in Varanasi graduates', the SP's Ashutosh Sinha was leading the BJP's Kedarnath, Jagran's live coverage reported. In the Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers' constituency, the BJP's Dhruv Kumar Tripathi was leading; SP and independent candidates boycotted that count alleging problems with the process — an allegation, not an established finding, in the reports.
Source: The Daily Jagran
Reacting to the results, SP president Akhilesh Yadav congratulated party workers and the victorious candidates in a post on X and urged them to celebrate peacefully without processions, saying BJP supporters should get no chance to level accusations of rioting. "Heartiest congratulations to you and your colleagues on this victory," he wrote, adding that the party would felicitate the winners.
Source: ANI via Indian Economic Observer
Formal declarations by returning officers were still awaited for the seats where candidates were only leading when these reports were filed. Because council elections use preferential voting on paper ballots, later rounds can change early trends, so the 6-5 tally remains provisional until every declaration is made.