New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party is eyeing to win the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections with a sweeping majority as it leads on most of the 27 seats, although it has lost the Varanasi seat to an independent candidate. The party has already won 9 out of 36 seats unopposed. 27 seats underwent polling for the Legislative Council across 58 districts in the state on April 9 and the counting of votes is underway today. 


Congress and the BSP did not field any candidate in the Legislative Council elections, making it a direct fight between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party.






UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s congratulated all the newly elected members of the Upper House. "Hearty congratulations and best wishes to all the newly elected members of the Upper House of Uttar Pradesh," he tweeted. 


 






Here is the list of winners from various local authorities constituencies 


Independent candidate Annapurna Singh won from Varanasi


BJP candidate CP Chand wins from Maharajganj


BJP candidate Shyam Narayan Singh alias Vineet won from Mirzapur-Sonbhadra


BJP candidate Om Prakash Singh won from Mathura-Eta-Mainpuri


BJP candidate Ashish Yadav won from Mathura-Eta-Mainpuri


BJP candidate Vageesh Pathak won from Badaun


BJP candidate Ashok Agrawal won from Hardoi


BJP candidate Anoop Gupta won from Lakhimpur Kheri


BJP candidate Jitendra Singh Sengar won from Banda-Hamirpur


BJP candidate Rishipal Singh won from Aligarh


BJP candidate Narendra Bhati won from Bulandshahr


BJP candidate Ramchandra Pradhan won from Lucknow-Unnao


BJP candidate Pragya Tripathi won from Bahraich-Shravasti


BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh won from Rae Bareli


BJP candidate Pawan Singh Chauhan won from Sitapur


BJP candidate Subash Yaduvansh won from Basti-Siddharthnagar 


BJP candidate Ratanpal Singh won from Deoria-Kushinagar


BJP candidate Brajesh Singh won from Jaunpur


BJP candidate Angad Kumar Singh won from Barabanki


Voting was held for the following local authorities' constituencies — Moradabad-Bijnor, Rampur-Bareilly, Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur, Sitapur, Lucknow-Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh, Sultanpur, Barabanki, Bahraich, Gonda, Faizabad, Basti-Siddharthnagar, Gorakhpur-Maharajganj, Deoria, Azamgarh-Mau, Ballia, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur, Kanpur-Fatehpur, Etawah-Farrukhabad, Agra-Firozabad, Meerut-Ghaziabad, and Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur.


In the 100-member Legislative Council, the BJP had 34 MLCs, the Samajwadi Party (SP) had 17 and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had four representatives. The Congress, Apna Dal (Sonelal), and NISHAD party had one member each while the Independent group Nirdal Samooh and Independents had 1 MLC each.