UP Bypolls 2022 LIVE Updates: Mainpuri Records 44.13% Voter Turnout Till 3 PM

UP By-Elections 2022 Live Updates: Polling in UP will be held from 7 am to 6 pm and the results will be declared on December 8.

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UP Byelections 2022 Live Updates: Hello and welcome to ABP Live for the coverage of bypolls to one Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. This electoral battle is to save the bastion be it for SP in the Rampur assembly and Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, or for BJP aim is to retain the Khatauli assembly seat. The outcomes of the UP bypolls 2022 will not have any impact on the central or the state governments as the BJP enjoys a comfortable majority at both levels. However, wins would provide a psychological advantage ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Polling in UP will be held from 7 am to 6 pm and the results will be declared on December 8. According to a statement issued by the office of Uttar Pradesh's Chief Electoral Officer, 24.43 lakh people will exercise their voting rights in the bypolls. This includes 13.14 lakh male voters, 11.29 lakh female voters and 132 third-category voters. Voting will take place at 3,062 polling booths located in 1,945 polling centres.Mainpuri Lok Sabha Seat BypollThe bypoll to the Mainpuri parliamentary seat is taking place due to the death of Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav. In Mainpuri, there are six candidates in the fray. Mulayam Singh Yadav's elder daughter-in-law and SP president Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav is pitted against BJP's Raghuraj Singh Shakya. The BJP candidate, who was once a close associate of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party chief and Akhilesh Yadav's uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, joined the saffron party ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls held earlier this year.Rampur Sadar Vidhan Sabha Seat BypollIn Rampur Sadar, the polls were necessitated after SP MLA Azam Khan was disqualified following his conviction in a hate speech case. Khan was disqualified after a court awarded him three-year imprisonment in a 2019 hate speech case. 10 candidates are in the fray from the Rampur Sadar assembly seat. The BJP in Rampur Sadar has fielded Akash Saxena, who is the son of former party MLA Shiv Bahadur Saxena, against senior SP leader Azam Khan's protege Asim Raja.Khatauli Vidhan Sabha Seat BypollIn Khatauli, the poll was necessitated after BJP MLA Vikram Singh Saini was disqualified following his conviction. Saini lost his membership in the assembly after his conviction in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. 14 candidates are contesting from the Khatauli assembly seat. In Khatauli, the fight is between Vikram Singh Saini's wife Rajkumari Saini and Madan Bhaiya from the RLD.

05/12/2022 16:31:33

SP Share Video Of Broken Chairs At Rampur Poll Booth, Alleges BJP People ‘Vandalised’

"In Rampur, BJP people vandalized the SP booth and did hooliganism. On asking the question, the CO sir ran away. Election Commission should take cognizance of the matter, action should be taken against the accused BJP leader. Such policemen should be suspended immediately," SP tweeted.

 

05/12/2022 15:51:51

UP Bypolls 2022 LIVE Updates: Mainpuri Records 44.13% Voter Turnout Till 3 PM

A voter turnout of 44.13 per cent was recorded till 3 pm, in the by-poll to the Mainpuri Parliamentary constituency.

05/12/2022 14:14:19

UP Bypolls 2022 LIVE Updates: Mainpuri Records 31.64% Voter Turnout Till 1 PM

A voter turnout of 31.64 per cent was recorded till 1 pm, in the by-poll to the Mainpuri Parliamentary constituency.

05/12/2022 14:15:15

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: Break-Up Of Voter Turnout In Mainpuri Till 1 PM

A voter turnout of 31.35 per cent was recorded in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat bypolls. Folllowing is the detailed voter turnout details of various seats under Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat. 

Mainpuri Assembly 30.01 %
Bhogaon Assembly 31.08%
Kishni Assembly 31.05%
Karhal Assembly 32.81%
Jaswantnagar Assembly 32.58%

05/12/2022 13:19:20

UP Bypolls 2022 LIVE - People Realised BJP Fighting Polls Unfairly, Sure Of SP Win: Dimple Yadav In Mainpuri

Samajwadi Party candidate for Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll, Dimple Yadav reposed her faith in her party's victory saying "people have realised that BJP is fighting polls unfairly." "I have complete faith that SP will win the Mainpuri bypolls, people have realised that BJP is fighting polls unfairly so they will get the reply once the poll results are out," said Dimple Yadav

05/12/2022 12:11:25

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: 18.72% Voter Turnout Recorded In Mainpuri Till 11 AM

A voter turnout of 18.72 per cent was recorded in Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, as per the data shared by Election Commission, where byelections are taking place after the demise of Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. 

05/12/2022 10:53:08

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: Shivpal Singh Yadav Alleges 'Administrative Pressure' During Poll Process

Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party chief Shivpal Singh Yadav alleged that the polling process in Mainpuri has been under administrative pressure and that his party workers were attacked by the police.

"Administrative pressure so far, our workers were attacked. I alerted them last night to not get caught by Police, reach booths at 7 am & facilitate voting. People loved Netaji (Mulayam Yadav). They'll make Dimple win by huge margin," Yadav told news agency ANI. 

05/12/2022 10:46:19

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav Casts Vote

Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Akhilesh Yadav cast his vote at Abhinav Vidyalaya in Eatwah for Mainpuri bypoll. 

05/12/2022 09:57:00

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: 7.08% Voter Turnout Till 9 AM Recorded In Mainpuri

A voter turnout of 7.08 per cent was recorded in the undergoing bypoll in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, as per the data shared by Election Commission. 

05/12/2022 09:57:00

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: 7.08% Voter Turnout Till 9 AM Recorded In Mainpuri

A voter turnout of 7.08 per cent was recorded in the undergoing bypoll in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, as per the data shared by Election Commission. 

05/12/2022 09:43:48

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: Polling Underway In Rampur Sadar Constituency

Polling for bypolls in Rampur Sadar is underway which were necessitated after SP MLA Azam Khan was disqualified. 

05/12/2022 08:47:32

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: SP MP Ram Gopal Yadav Votes, Alleges Police Hindering Poll Process

Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav cast his vote for the Mainpuri bypolls. " "Dimple Yadav (party's candidate for the by-election) will win with three times more votes than what Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) used to get," he said. 

"Police-admin doing manipulation. EC had directed that deployment for duties be randomised.But when polling parties arrived, around 2000 of the staff was stopped & held back as reserves as they had Yadav surname. they forget that not only Yadavs but everyone votes for SP," he said. 

"In Mainpuri, they weren't allowing agents at booths 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146. We spoke to Returning Officer, I'll find out if it was later allowed. Similarly, BJP goons came to powerhouse of Mainpuri in inebriated state & pushed our agent out.Police&admn are no help," Yadav added. 

"They don't even allow casting of votes in Rampur. Beating up of people started y'day. SSP there is the one who was removed from Firozabad on my complaint during polls. This SSP was there the last time too & even now. There is nobody to listen but public is supreme," he said. 

05/12/2022 07:39:59

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: Mulayam Singh's Brother, Abhay Ram Yadav Casts Vote At Saifai

Samajwadi Party patron, the late Mulayam Singh's brother, Abhay Ram Singh reached the polling booth at Abhinav Vidyalaya in Etawah's Saifai to cast his vote. 

"SP is going to win by a huge margin. There is no competition with any other political party," he said. 

05/12/2022 07:37:01

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: Azam Khan Claims Police 'Telling People Not To Step Out For Vote'

As the bypolls to three seats, one Lok Sabha and two Assembly seats are underway in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan alleged that the police is telling people not to vote, reported news agency ANI. 

"Barbarism being done and people being arrested, beaten up. Police are going to colonies and telling people not to step out to vote. People in one colony locked up their houses and migrated in fear. They are saying it everywhere to not cast votes," he said . 

05/12/2022 07:29:04

UP Byelections 2022 LIVE Updates: Direct Contest Between BJP, SP-RLD Alliance

On the two Assembly seats, Rampur Sadar and Khatauli, and one Lok Sabha seat, Rampur, in Uttar Pradesh the contest is directly between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Samajwadi Party, and Rashtriya Lok Dal alliance. 

Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress are out of the contest. 

From the Mainpuri seat, where elections were necessitated after the demise of sitting MP Mulayam Singh, his daughter-in-law, Dimple Yadav has been fielded by the SP in a direct contest with Raghuraj Singh Shakya from BJP. 

05/12/2022 07:12:35

UP By-Elections 2022 Live: Voting Begins For Bypoll To Mainpuri Lok Sabha Seat, 2 Assembly Seats

Voting for by-elections for Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh begins.