Janjivan Bureau
Lucknow : Around 64% voters turned up to exercise their franchise on Saturday in first of the staggered seven-phase assembly elections in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. Polling took place in 73 of the state’s 403 assembly constituencies, spread across 15 districts in the western part of the state. A total of 839 candidates were in the fray. In this phase, around 2.59 crore voters were eligible to exercise their franchise.
In the 2012 assembly polls, of the 73 seats — SP had won 24, BSP 23, BJP 12, Rashtriya Lok Dal 9 and the Congress 5 seats. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won all the 12 seats in the region. The region was earlier a stronghold of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and whether she gets the CM’s chair or not will depend on how the BSP does in these 73 seats.
Constituency Polling percentage
Agra 63.88
Aligarh 64.66
Baghpat 64.99
Bulandshahr 64.65
Etah 64.93
Firozabad 63.59
Gautam Buddh Nagar 59.17
Ghaziabad 58.10
Hapur 65.67
Hathras 64.10
Kasganj 64.83
Mathura 65.39
Meerut 66.00
Muzaffarnagar 65.50
Shamli 67.12
