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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2017 Live Updates Phase 5: 57.36 per cent voter turnout recorded till 5 PM

The districts voting in the fifth phase include Ayodhya, Balrampur, Faizabad, Gonda, Bahraich, Ambedkar Nagar, Shravasti, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Amethi and Sultanpur.

Updated: February 27, 2017 7:27 PM IST

By Zeeshan Shaikh

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2017 Live Updates Phase 5: 57.36 per cent voter turnout recorded till 5 PM
प्रतीकात्मक तस्वीर

Lucknow, Feb 26: Polling for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections will start in few hours today. In this phase 615 candidates from four major political parties – Samajwadi, BJP, Congress and BSP – including 71 more parties are contesting the elections, whose fate will be decided today. The districts which will go for polls today include Ayodhya, Balrampur, Faizabad, Gonda, Bahraich, Ambedkar Nagar, Shravasti, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar and Sultanpur. Congress’s stronghold Amethi, from where Gandhi family contests elections, will also elect its representatives today.

In the fifth phase, prominent contestants include Samajwadi Party’s controversial minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, who will be facing Congress candidate Amita Singh and BJP candidate Garima Singh in Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Rahul Gandhi. Amita is the wife of Congress leader Sanjay Singh, while Garima Singh is his estranged spouse. The contest in Amethi has termed as “rani versus rani” fight.

In Alapur (Ambedkar Nagar constituency), due to the death of Samajwadi Party leader Chandrashekhar Kanuajia, the state Election Commission has announced a fresh round of voting in this constituency on March 9. Also Read – Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2017 phase 5: Key candidates and constituencies you need to know about

In 2012, in this phase, the ruling Samajwadi Party had won 37 out of 52 seats (including Alapur seat). While the BJP and Congress have won five seats each. The Bahujan Samaj Party had won three seats and Peace Party has won two seats in 2012.

Out of 11 districts, five of them share their border with Nepal. Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made a point in his speech in Gonda, where he referred to the Kanpur train tragedy, in which 150 people died, as a conspiracy by the perpetrators sitting across the border.

Gonda, one of the most populous districts of Uttar Pradesh is close to Nepal and so are Bahraich, Balrampur, Shravasti and Siddharth Nagar districts. (Also read: Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2017: BJP will end reservation, impose RSS agenda if it comes to power, says Mayawati)

Among 608 candidates in the phase, maximum (24 candidates) are contesting in Amethi and minimum of six each in Kapilvastu and Etwa seats of Siddharth Nagar district.

Today around 1.84 crore voters, including 96 lakh women, will decide the fate of leaders in the fray. Among top leaders who are contesting the elections include ministers Vinod Kumar Singh alias Pandit Singh from Tarabganj (Gonda), Tej Narain Pandey alias Pawan Pandey from Ayodhya and BSP state president Ram Achal Rajbhar from Akbarpur in this phase.

In the fifth phase two-time MLA, Samajwadi Party’s Anoop Sanda is facing tough competition from Bharatiya Janata Party’s Surya Bhan Singh.Syed Mujeed Ahmed of BSP is also trying his luck.

Live Updates

  • Feb 27, 2017 6:35 PM IST

    57.36 per cent voter turnout recorded till 5 PM, announces State Election Commission.

  • Feb 27, 2017 6:19 PM IST

    49.19 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2017.

  • Feb 27, 2017 6:19 PM IST

    The fifth phase will decide the fate of 607 candidates, who are in the fray in this phase with maximum of 24 candidates in Amethi and minimum of six each in Kapilvastu and Etwa seats of Siddharth Nagar district.

  • Feb 27, 2017 6:19 PM IST

    For the fifth phase, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) fielded its nominees in all 51 segments, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is contesting in 50 seats.

  • Feb 27, 2017 6:19 PM IST

    The final polling percentage is expected to be released shortly.

  • Feb 27, 2017 6:19 PM IST

    Voting is underway in 18,822 polling booths to decide the fate of 607 candidates. Amethi has the maximum number of 24 candidates.

  • Feb 27, 2017 4:06 PM IST

    Following the death of Samajwadi Party candidate for Alapur assembly seat, polling has been postponed till March 9. Alapur constituency of Ambedkar Nagar will vote on March 9 as Samajwadi Party candidate Chandrashekhar Kanaujia died.

  • Feb 27, 2017 4:02 PM IST

    The saffron party has left one seat for its ally Apana Dal.

  • Feb 27, 2017 3:44 PM IST

  • Feb 27, 2017 2:54 PM IST

    In Tanda constituency, BJP is in fight against the challenge of the Samajwadi Party. Widow of BJP leader Ram Babu Gupta (who was murdered on March 3, 2013), Sanju Devi is fighting the elections against SP MLA Azeem-ul-Haq.

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