UP Legislative Council Polling LIVE: Voting is currently underway for 27 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. It started on Saturday morning at 8 am. According to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh, 95 candidates are trying their luck in the fray. According to the office, voting will be held at 739 polling stations in the Legislative Council elections, in which 1,20,657 voters are expected to exercise their franchise. Voting will be held till 4 pm.
According to the election office, the local body constituencies for which polling is being held are Moradabad-Bijnor, Rampur-Bareilly, Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur, Sitapur, Lucknow-Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh, Sultanpur, Barabanki, Bahraich, Gonda, Faizabad, Basti-Siddharthnagar, Gorakhpur-Maharajganj, Deoria, Azamgarh-Mau, Ballia, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur, Kanpur-Fatehpur, Etawah-Farukhabad, Agra-Firozabad, Meerut-Ghaziabad and Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur are included. Huh. These 27 seats are in 58 districts.
At the same time, nine Legislative Council Members (MLCs) have been elected unopposed from the constituencies of eight local authorities. There is a direct contest between the SP and the BJP in the Legislative Council elections, as the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party have not fielded any candidate. However, some independent candidates are in the fray. Counting of votes will take place on April 12. The 36 seats of the Upper House of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature are spread over 35 local officials’ constituencies.