UP Bypoll Results 2019: BJP Bags 7 Seats, Samajwadi Party Wins 3

The by-elections to 11 Assembly segments were held in Gangoh, Rampur, Iglas (SC), Lucknow Cantonment, Govind Nagar, Manikpur, Pratapgarh, Zaidpur (SC), Jalalpur, Balha (SC) and Ghosi.

Updated: October 24, 2019 9:09 PM IST

By India.com News Desk | Edited by Ritu Singh

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Lucknow: The ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has bagged seven of the 11 Assembly seats which went to bypolls on 21 October. The Samajwadi Party won the remaining three seats including the stronghold Rampur, whereas Azam Khan’s wife Tazeem Fatima contested while BJP ally Apna Dal (Soneylal) retained the Pratpgarh seat.

The seven seats that the saffron party won are — Gangoh (Kirat Singh), Iglas (Rajkumar Sahyogi), Lucknow Cantt (Suresh Chandra Tiwari), Govindnagar (Surendra Maithani), Manikpur (Aanand Shukla), Balha (Saroj Sonkar) and Ghosi (Vijay Kumar Rajbhar).

After the results were announced, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that on 8 out of the 11 seats, BJP and its allies have registered victory.

उप्र विधानसभा उप चुनाव में जीत दर्ज करने वाले सभी प्रत्याशियों को हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।
आशा करता हूँ कि चुने गये सभी जन प्रतिनिधि आदरणीय PM श्री @narendramodi जी के 'सबका साथ-सबका विकास-सबका विश्वास' के मंत्र से जन आकांक्षाओं को पूर्ण कर प्रदेश की प्रगति में सक्रिय भूमिका निभाएंगे। — Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) October 24, 2019

In the previous elections, the BJP and its ally Apna Dal had won 9 seats while the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party had won one seat each of the total 11.

According to the ECI, a total of 109 candidates were in the fray for the bypolls. The maximum candidates — 13 each contested from Lucknow Cantonment and Jalalpur.

In the UP Legislative Assembly, the BJP currently has 302 members, the Samajwadi Party 47 and the Bahujan Samaj Party 18. The BJP’s ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) has eight legislators, while the Congress has seven MLAs in the House.

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