UP Elections Phase 1: Western U.P. Goes To Polls, Can BJP Repeat 2017 Magic?

Voting in the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections is underway today for 58 constituencies across 11 districts. The first phase of the elections in Western U.P. is considered crucial for the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP which is incumbent in the state, because it had pulled off a “clean sweep” in this region in 2017 and had won more than 90% seats from this region.
In the first phase of the 2017 elections, the BJP had won 53 out of the 58 seats in this region, representing a little over 91%. The Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) led by Akhilesh Yadav and Maywati respectively had managed to secure only 2 seats each, whereas the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), which is contesting in alliance with the SP this time, had won 1 seat.
At that time, it was clear that he BJP had simply swept away the opposition, and it had secured 23 seats in this region with a margin of over 20%, whereas it won 18 seats with a margin of 10-20% and another 12 seats with a margin of less than 10%. In the first phase of the UP Elections in 2022, voting is scheduled for:
At that time, it was clear that he BJP had simply swept away the opposition, and it had secured 23 seats in this region with a margin of over 20%, whereas it won 18 seats with a margin of 10-20% and another 12 seats with a margin of less than 10%. In the first phase of the UP Elections in 2022, voting is scheduled for:
- · Muzzafarnagar, 6 seats
- · Meerut, 7 seats
- · Baghpat, 3 seats
- · Ghaziabad, 5 seats
- · Hapur, 3 seats
- · Gautam Buddh Nagar, 3 seats
- · Bulandshahr, 7 seats
- · Aligarh, 7 seats
- · Mathura, 5 seats
- · Agra, 9 seats
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