Key Points
The ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has won 813 out of the 1,420 seats in the corporators category in the state's urban local body polls, while opposition Samajwadi Party bagged 191 and the Bahujan Samaj Party 85..
The BJP on Saturday registered wins on all the 17 mayoral seats in the state - Varanasi, Lucknow, Ayodhya, Jhansi, Bareilly, Mathura-Vrindavan, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Aligarh, Shahjahanpur, Ghaziabad, Agra, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Firozabad and Meerut...
According to the SEC, 191 Samajwadi Party candidates won as corporators in the state, followed by the Bahujan Samaj Party with 85, Congress 77, AIMIM 19, Rashtriya Lok Dal 10, Aam Aadmi Party eight, and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) five, while the Indian Union Muslim League, Jan Adhikar Party, Peace Party and the NISHAD party clinched one seat each...
After the bulk of the results were announced on Saturday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath thanked the people of Uttar Pradesh and congratulated BJP workers for forming a "triple-engine government" in the state...
In the two-phase urban local body elections, voting was also held to elect 198 chairpersons and 5,260 members of nagar palika parishads, 542 chairpersons of nagar panchayats and 7,104 members of nagar panchayats...
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