Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh MLC Election Result 2023 Highlights: BJP Wins Four Seats in UP, SP Remains Winless; MVA Trounces NDA in Maharashtra

The counting of votes is being done today for the five MLC seats in Uttar Pradesh and five MLC seats in Maharashtra.

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03 Feb, 19:33 (IST)

Counting of votes is over for Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh MLC election 2023. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won four out of five seats and an independent candidate has won one seat in the Uttar Pradesh MLC election. The Samajwadi Party has faced defeat in all five seats. In Maharashtra, four of those five seats were won by the MVA - an alliance of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress. While congress won two seats, NCP and a congress supported independent won a seat each. BJP could win only one seat. In the Konkan teachers seat, BJP candidate Dnyaneshwar Mhatre defeated MVA-backed nominee Balaram Patil.

03 Feb, 19:21 (IST)

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won four out of five seats and an independent candidate has won one seat in the Uttar Pradesh MLC election. The Samajwadi Party has faced defeat in all five seats.

03 Feb, 18:39 (IST)

The results of five seats of the Maharashtra MLC election were declared on Thursday, and four of those five seats were won by the MVA - an alliance of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress. While congress won two seats, NCP and a congress supported independent won a seat. BJP could win only one seat. In the Konkan teachers seat, BJP candidate Dnyaneshwar Mhatre defeated MVA-backed nominee Balaram Patil.

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02 Feb, 23:11 (IST)

Counting of votes for MLC election results in underway. BJP candidates Jaypal Singh and Babulal Tiwari are leading in Bareilly and Jhansi respectively while independent candidate Rajbahadur Singh Chandel is leading in Kanpur Teachers’ seat.

02 Feb, 22:58 (IST)

Counting is underway for Kanpur graduate MLC election seat. BJP candidate Arun Pathak is ahead by 8500 votes. BJP candidate is leading over SP's Kamlesh Yadav. Arun Pathak was again given ticket from the constituency after he secured a victory for the saffron party in the previous MLC election.

02 Feb, 22:20 (IST)

Satyajeet Tambe is leading after the third round of counting of votes from Nashik Graduate Constituency. He is leading with 21,000 votes. Tambe had earlier sought support from the BJP but it refused to do so openly in view of the protest that he, as Youth Congress president, held against rising prices in 2018 during which he blackened a poster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

02 Feb, 20:46 (IST)

Independent candidate Raj Bahadur Chandel is still leading in the counting of votes in graduate and teacher MLC elections after the end of second round of counting. He is maintaining edge over rivals.

02 Feb, 19:39 (IST)

Counting of votes for the Allahabad-Jhansi teachers constituency is underway. After the first two rounds Babulal Tiwari of the Bharatiya Janata Party is leading with 4508 votes. Independent Suresh Kumar Tripathi is in second place with 3995 votes. Dr. P. Patel of the Samajwadi Party, on the other hand, stayed in third place with 2891 votes.

02 Feb, 18:39 (IST)

MVA's Sudhakar Adbole has defeated BJP's Nago Ganar by more than 7000 votes in Nagpur Teachers constituency. While Dnyaneshwar Mhatre from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Konkan teachers' constituency seat, the saffron party is trailing in Aurangabad teacher’s and Amravati graduate seats. NCP candidate Vikram Kale is leading against BJP's Kiran Patil in Aurangabad.

02 Feb, 17:12 (IST)

MVA-supported Sudhakar Adbole is leading with more than 7,000 votes in Maharashtra MLC Election Result 2023 from the Nagpur teachers constituency. BJP's Nano Ganar is trailing behind Adbole. Nanar, so far, has received 6,366 votes.

02 Feb, 15:21 (IST)

As the counting of votes for the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls continues, Maha Vikas Aghadi's (MVA) Vikram Kale is leading against BJP's Kiran Patil in Aurangabad. Dnyaneshwar Mhatre from the BJP won the Konkan teachers' constituency seat in the state Legislative Council polls. He defeated the Maha Vikas Aghadi candidate Balaram Patil.

02 Feb, 12:40 (IST)

Dnyaneshwar Mhatre has taken a massive lead over Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidate Balaram Patil in the Konkan Teachers’ Constituency poll. The BJP-backed candidate is leading with 20,606 votes. 

02 Feb, 12:09 (IST)

As of the early trends, BJP-backed candidate Kiran Patil and Vikram Kale of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are trailing in Marathwada Teachers' Constituency Election Result 2023. Suryakant Vishwasrao, an independent candidate, has taken a lead.

 

02 Feb, 10:44 (IST)

The counting of votes for the Uttar Pradesh MLC Election 2023 is currently underway amid tight security. Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party (SP) needs to win just one seat to get the post of the Opposition party in the legislative assembly. The party currently has 9 seats in the 100-member council. The party with 10 seats can claim the position.

02 Feb, 10:16 (IST)

If reports are to be believed, Satyajit Tambe, the independent candidate from Nashik Graduates Constituency, is missing from yesterday. Tambe has moved to a secret location and will arrive at the counting centre at 3 pm today, the reports added. Tambe, who rebelled from Congress and filed for nomination as an independent candidate, is pitted against MVA-backed Shubhangi Patil.

02 Feb, 08:51 (IST)

The counting of votes for the Legislative Council Elections 2023 has begun. The biennial election for Legislative Council seats, consisting of graduate constituencies and teacher constituencies, took place on Monday. The results are expected to come out by evening. Watch this space for Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh MLC Election Result.


Mumbai, February 2: The counting of votes is being done today, February 2, for the five Legislative Council seats- three graduate constituencies and two teachers' constituencies of Uttar Pradesh and five MLC seats for the teachers namely Nagpur, Aurangabad and Konkan and graduates namely Nashik and Amravati constituencies in Maharashtra. The elections for the legislative council seats were held on January 30.

In Maharashtra there will be a straight contest between the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and the BJP candidates although there are several candidates in the fray while Uttar Pradesh is likely to see BJP versus Samajwadi Party in the MLC polls for teachers and graduates constituencies. Maharashtra MLC Elections 2023: Voting for Nagpur Division Teacher Constituency Poll Begins.

The MLC polls in UP saw a heated contest as SP workers alleged that their polling agents were not allowed to reach the booths and that BJP candidates tried to influence the election process while elections in Maharashtra was marked by a controversy over the suspension of a father-son duo from the Congress for anti-party activities and utter confusion over selection of official nominees by political parties. Maharashtra MLC Elections 2023: 29 Candidates File Nominations for Nashik Division Graduates' Seat.

The polling percentage in Maharashtra’s Nashik was 49.3, in Amravati it was 49.7, in Aurangabad 86, in Nagpur 86.2 and in Konkan it was 91. While in Uttar Pradesh the average polling percentage across nine districts of Bareilly and Moradabad division was 53.79 percent. Budaun had the most polling at 63.70 percent while Rampur remained at the bottom with 45 percent.

It is important to know that in a graduates’ constituency, only people who have been a graduate for three years from recognized universities can vote while in a teachers’ constituency, those who have been a teacher for three years out of the previous six years can vote if enrolled as voters.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Feb 02, 2023 08:27 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

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