Lucknow, May 31: The results of by-elections in Uttar Pradesh's Kairana Lok Sabha seat and Noorpur assembly constituency will be declared today. The two seats went to bypolls on Monday. The Election Commission had scheduled the counting of votes to begin from 8 am today. Watch the live streaming of bypoll-related news and updates, including early trends of results, via the embedded links of Aaj Tak and ETV UP below.

The bypoll contest in Kairana and Noorpur turned into a prestige fight for the ruling BJP, claim analysts, particularly after the jolts suffered at the hands of a united Opposition in Phulpur and Gorakhpur -- the two seats wrested by SP-BSP combine in March.

Watch Live Streaming of Kairana, Noorpur By-Election Results 2018 on ETV UP:

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In Kairana, the bypoll was necessitated due to the demise of incumbent BJP MP Hukum Singh on February 3, 2018. The party had given the ticket to his daughter Mriganka Singh to contest from the constituency. The Opposition, meanwhile, had fielded Tabassum Hasan on RLD ticket. Her candidature was backed by the Samajwadi Party, BSP and Congress.

In Noorpur, by-election was called after the death of BJP MLA Lokendra Singh, who passed away in a road accident near Sitapur on February 21. The party had fielded his widow, Avnish Singh, to take on Samajwadi Party's Naeem-ul-Hasan. The latter has been backed by the BSP, Congress and RLD.

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