UP CM Yogi Adityanath has submitted his resignation to Governor Anandiben Patel at Raj Bhavan. The first term of CM Yogi is coming to an end. The party won a major victory in UP, winning 273 seats with allies, while the SP alliance won 125 seats. In a statement issued by the Samajwadi Party, it has been said that Akhilesh Yadav and SP have accepted the mandate. We thank the people of UP for 2.5 times increase in seat tally and 1.5 times jump in vote share.
The candidates of the BJP alliance defeated the candidates of the SP alliance in seven seats by a margin of less than 500 votes, while the candidates of the SP alliance similarly defeated the candidates of the BJP alliance in four seats. BJP, Apna Dal (S) and Nishad Party together won 273 seats in the assembly elections for 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, while the alliance of Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Suhaildev Bharatiya Samaj Party got 125 seats. BJP alone won 255 seats while Samajwadi Party won 111 seats.
In the 2017 assembly elections, the margin of victory and defeat in eight seats was less than one thousand votes. Out of these five seats were won by BJP candidates, while two seats were won by Bahujan Samaj Party and one seat by SP candidate. In the last election, the toughest contest was in Dumariaganj seat. Here Raghavendra Pratap Singh of BJP defeated Syeda Khatoon of SP by 171 votes.
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In this election, the toughest contest was in three assembly seats in Bijnor district and two in Barabanki. There was a fierce fight in Dhampur assembly seat of Bijnor district. In a very close contest here, BJP’s Ashok Kumar Rana defeated SP’s Naeem-ul-Hasan by just 203 votes. Bijnor’s Chandpur seat also saw a fierce contest, but the victory finally went to Swami Omvesh of SP. He defeated Kamlesh Saini of BJP by 234 votes. Nahtaur seat of the same district saw an interesting contest and after several rounds of uproar, Omkumar of BJP finally defeated Munshi Ram of RLD by 258 votes.
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