Gorakhpur & Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Bye-election Results 2018 Live News Updates: SP Declared Winner From Phulpur & Gorakhpur, Congress Loses Deposit

In Gorakhpur, Samajwadi Party’s Praveen Kumar Nishad wins Yogi Adityanath’s Gorakhpur seat, defeats BJP’s Upendra Dutt Shukla by 21,916 votes. Pravin Nishad, the candidate supported by the Samajwadi Party in Gorakhpur had spoken of a "bigger alliance" if the Samajwadi Party won.

Congress candidate in Phulpur Shambhu Patel has lost his deposit. The seat has been wrested by SP's Nagendra Patel. The party leaders, however, expressed rejoice over the defeat of the BJP. "We have lost and we will evaluate what went wrong. But still we would congratulate the SP four defeating the communal forces," said Congress spokesperson Meem Afzal.

Samajwadi Party candidate from Phulpur Nagendra Pratap Patel has been declared winner by the Election Commission. The victory of SP comes as a major embarrassment for the BJP as the seat was last represented by Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya.

It comes as a shocker for the BJP, that it failed to hold on to victory in both, Phulpur and Gorakhpur constituencies. Both the seats were vacated by CM and Deputy CM. The winners are not declared yet, but the trends suggest SP is more likely to win the seats.

As per the latest reports, the SP candidate is leading in Gorakhpur by 23,034 votes, and Phulpur by 39,681 votes.

After 20th round of counting in Phulpur, Samajwadi Party's Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel leads by 29,474 with 2,18,963 votes, BJP's Kaushlendra Singh Patel second with 1,89,489 votes 

After 17th round of counting in Gorakhpur, SP's Praveen Kumar Nishad leads by 26,960 votes with 2,62,346 votes while BJP's Upendra Dutt Shukla second with 2,35,836 votes.

The ongoing results in the UP by-elections would have rung warning bells in the BJP ranks. The party is trailing in both the seats with SP extending its lead to an invincible one. In Phulpur, the SP candidate is ahead by  22,482 votes; while in Gorakhpur, SP has managed to extend its lead to 19,201 votes.

BJP is trailing on the seats which they had won comprehensively in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. In Phulpur, the SP extended its lead by 20,495 votes. Also, in Gorakhpur, considered to be CM Yogi Adityanath's bastion, the BJP is trailing by 13,000 votes.

As per the latest reports, the SP has moved ahead of BJP in both Gorakhpur and Phulpur constituencies. The SP candidate of Phulpur has extended its lead and is now leading by 15,713 votes; whereas the party is leading in Gorakhpur constituency by 14,600 votes. The BJP seems to be losing ground to SP in both the constituencies.

SP candidate has breached the bastion of UP CM Yogi Adityanath's constituency and is now leading by  3,760 votes. In Phulpur, the SP seems to be a clear winner as SP is leading by a margin of 14,299 votes as per the latest reports.

There were reports of counting being slow in Gorakhpur constituency. Also, the media-persons were barred from entering the counting centre.

The latest trends suggest SP has marginally moved ahead of the BJP in Gorakhpur constituency. The SP candidate is now leading by 1,523 votes. In Phulpur, the party has strengthened its lead and is now ahead by 12,223 votes.

As per the recent updates, the SP has been managed to spring a major surprise in the state. The SP was already leading in Phulpur constituency and now has surged ahead of BJP in Gorakhpur too. There were reports of media being denied to enter the counting center.

The counting process is quite slow in the Gorakhpur constituency. However, the BJP is leading in the constituency by a huge margin, as per the latest reports. In the Phulpur constituency, the SP candidate is ahead by 6,931 votes.

Despite BJP trailing from Phulpur in the initial counting of votes, the party's former MP from the seat Keshav Prasad Maurya is firm on its victory. "We will win the Phulpur seat by the time the final results will emerge," said Maurya.

The Samajwadi Party is leading from Phulpur by over 2,100 votes. The seat was earlier represented by the BJP's Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was appointed as the Deputy CM last year.

BJP candidate Upendra Dutt Shukla is leading from Gorakhpur parliamentary constituency by over 3,000 votes, as per the latest updates released by the ECI.

Praveen Nishad, the Samajwadi Party candidate from Gorakhpur claims the "elections were rigged" in favour of BJP. "This has happened earlier as well. The EVMs were rigged in favour of the BJP. The Election Commission should investigate," he said, while speaking to reporters.

The BJP is leading in Gorakhpur by over 3,200 votes. The party had fielded Upendra Dutt Shukla to take on SP's Praveen Nishad. 

The Samajwadi Party is leading in Phulpur by over 4,300 votes, after the second round of voting concluded. The bypoll result signals the transfer of BSP votes to SP, as the former had backed out of the bypoll race and extended backchannel support to the Akhilesh Yadav-led party.

The SP had fielded Nagendra Patel from the constituency, to take on BJP's Kaushlendra Patel. 

In a major setback for the BJP, the Samajwadi Party candidate Nagendra Patel is leading from Phulpur seat by over 1,700 votes, TV reports said. The seat was earlier represented by Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya. The BSP, the arch rival of SP over the past two decades, not only retracted its candidate from the bye-election, but also extended backchannel support to the SP. The result, pollsters claim, will determine the partnership of SP-BSP coalition in the run-up to 2019 general elections. Stay tuned for more updates.